Galatians 4:13
11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
12 Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.
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.
15 Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.
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
- You know that it was because of an illness that I first preached the gospel to you.
- KJV
- Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
- WEB
- but you know that because of weakness in the flesh I preached the Good News to you the first time.
- ASV
- but ye know that because of an infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you the first time:
- DARBY
- But ye know that in weakness of the flesh I announced the glad tidings to you at the first;
- BLB
- Now you⁺ know that in weakness of the flesh I preached the gospel to you⁺ the first [time].
- ÅB
- men dere vet at det var på grunn av skrøpelighet i mitt kjød at jeg første gang kom til å forkynne evangeliet for dere;
- OTB
- Dere vet at det var på grunn av en sykdom at jeg først forkynte evangeliet for dere.
- B1930
- men I vet at det var på grunn av skrøpelighet i mitt kjød at jeg første gang kom til å forkynne evangeliet for eder;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Corinthians 2:3
And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
Read in context2 Corinthians 12:7–10
And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
Read in context2 Corinthians 11:30
If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.
Read in context2 Corinthians 10:10
For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.
Read in contextGalatians 1:6
I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
Read in context2 Corinthians 13:4
For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.
Read in context2 Corinthians 11:6
But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.
Read in contextActs 16:6
Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia,
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