Galatians 4:16
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.
Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
17 They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
18 But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?
- KJV
- Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
- WEB
- So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?
- ASV
- So then am I become your enemy, by telling you the truth?
- DARBY
- So I have become your enemy in speaking the truth to you?
- BLB
- So have I become your⁺ enemy speaking truth to you⁺?
- ÅB
- Så er jeg da blitt deres fiende ved å si dere sannheten!
- OTB
- Har jeg blitt deres motstander ved å tale sannheten til dere?
- B1930
- Så er jeg da blitt eders fiende ved å si eder sannheten!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Amos 5:10
They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
Read in contextProverbs 9:8
Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
Read in contextJohn 8:45
And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
Read in contextGalatians 5:7
Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?
Read in contextPsalms 141:5
Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
Read in contextGalatians 2:5
To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.
Read in contextJohn 7:7
The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
Read in context1 Kings 22:8
And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
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