New American Standard Bible 1995
Galatians 4:9-20
9But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be 1known by God, 2how is it that you turn back again to the weak and worthless 34elemental things, to which you desire to be enslaved all over again? 10You 5observe days and months and seasons and years. 11I fear for you, that perhaps I have labored 6over you in vain.
12I beg of you, 7brethren, 8become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You have done me no wrong; 13but you know that it was because of a 9bodily illness that I preached the gospel to you the 10first time; 14and that which was a 11trial to you in my 12bodily condition you did not despise or 13loathe, but 14you received me as an angel of God, as 15Christ Jesus Himself. 15Where then is 16that sense of blessing you had? For I bear you witness that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me. 16So have I become your enemy 17by 18telling you the truth? 17They eagerly seek you, not commendably, but they wish to shut you out so that you will seek them. 18But it is good always to be eagerly sought in a commendable 19manner, and 20not only when I am present with you. 1921My children, with whom 22I am again in labor until 23Christ is formed in you-- 20but I could wish to be present with you now and to change my tone, for 24I am perplexed about you.
Notes
- 1. Galatians 4:9 1 Cor 8:3 ↩
- 2. Galatians 4:9 Col 2:20 ↩
- 3. Galatians 4:9 Or rudimentary teachings or principles ↩
- 4. Galatians 4:9 Gal 4:3 ↩
- 5. Galatians 4:10 Rom 14:5; Col 2:16 ↩
- 6. Galatians 4:11 Or for ↩
- 7. Galatians 4:12 Gal 6:18 ↩
- 8. Galatians 4:12 2 Cor 6:11, 13 ↩
- 9. Galatians 4:13 Lit weakness of the flesh ↩
- 10. Galatians 4:13 Or former ↩
- 11. Galatians 4:14 Or temptation ↩
- 12. Galatians 4:14 Lit flesh ↩
- 13. Galatians 4:14 Lit spit out at ↩
- 14. Galatians 4:14 Matt 10:40; 1 Thess 2:13 ↩
- 15. Galatians 4:14 Gal 3:26 ↩
- 16. Galatians 4:15 Lit the congratulation of yourselves ↩
- 17. Galatians 4:16 Amos 5:10 ↩
- 18. Galatians 4:16 Or dealing truthfully with you ↩
- 19. Galatians 4:18 Or thing ↩
- 20. Galatians 4:18 Gal 4:13f ↩
- 21. Galatians 4:19 1 John 2:1 ↩
- 22. Galatians 4:19 1 Cor 4:15 ↩
- 23. Galatians 4:19 Eph 4:13 ↩
- 24. Galatians 4:20 2 Cor 4:8 ↩
Commentaries on Galatians 4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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