Galatians 4:12
10 You are observing special days and months and seasons and years!
11 I fear for you, that my efforts for you may have been in vain.
I beg you, brothers, become like me, for I became like you. You have done me no wrong.
13 You know that it was because of an illness that I first preached the gospel to you.
14 And although my illness was a trial to you, you did not despise or reject me. Instead, you welcomed me as if I were an angel of God, as if I were Christ Jesus Himself.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- I beg you, brothers, become like me, for I became like you. You have done me no wrong.
- KJV
- Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.
- WEB
- I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong,
- ASV
- I beseech you, brethren, become as I [am], for I also [am become] as ye [are]. Ye did me no wrong:
- DARBY
- Be as *I* [am], for *I* also [am] as *ye*, brethren, I beseech you: ye have not at all wronged me.
- BLB
- I implore you⁺, brothers, become as I [am], because I also [am] as you⁺. You⁺ wronged me in nothing.
- ÅB
- Vær som jeg! for jeg er jo som dere. Brødre! jeg ber dere. Dere har ingen urett gjort meg;
- OTB
- Jeg ber dere, brødre og søstre, bli som meg, for jeg ble som dere. Dere har ikke gjort meg noe ondt.
- B1930
- Vær som jeg! for jeg er jo som I. Brødre! jeg ber eder. I har ingen urett gjort mig;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
2 Corinthians 2:5
Now if anyone has caused grief, he has not grieved me but all of you—to some degree, not to overstate it.
Read in context1 Kings 22:4
So he asked Jehoshaphat, “Will you go with me to fight against Ramoth-gilead?” Jehoshaphat answered the king of Israel, “I am like you, my people are your people, and my horses are your horses.”
Read in context1 Corinthians 9:20–23
To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), to win those under the law.
Read in contextGenesis 34:15
We will consent to this on one condition, that you become circumcised like us—every one of your males.
Read in contextGalatians 6:14
But as for me, may I never boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
Read in contextGalatians 2:14
When I saw that they were not walking in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “If you, who are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?”
Read in context2 Corinthians 6:13
As a fair exchange, I ask you as my children: Open wide your hearts also.
Read in contextPhilippians 3:7–8
But whatever was gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ.
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