Galatians 4:12
10 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.
11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.
13 Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
14 And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
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
But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.
Read in context1 Kings 22:4
And he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to battle to Ramoth-gilead? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as thou art, my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses.
Read in context1 Corinthians 9:20–23
And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;
Read in contextGenesis 34:15
But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised;
Read in contextGalatians 6:14
But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.
Read in contextGalatians 2:14
But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
Read in context2 Corinthians 6:13
Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.
Read in contextPhilippians 3:7–8
But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
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