Galatians 4:16 KJV — MannaFest

Galatians 4:16

Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

KJV

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ASV

So then am I become your enemy, by telling you the truth?

WEB

Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?

YLT

so that your enemy have I become, being true to you?

DBT

So I have become your enemy in speaking the truth to you?

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Galatians — Paul's gospel defended against a different gospel. Biography, then argument, then ethics — the Magna Carta of Christian liberty.

Author: Paul (1:1), no co-sender
Date: c. AD 48–49 (south-Galatia view) or c. AD 53–55 (north-Galatia view)

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23 verses on the floor

Amos 5:10
They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
Proverbs 9:8
Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
2 Timothy 4:3
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
John 8:45
And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
Galatians 5:7
Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?

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It is no uncommon thing for men to account those their enemies who are really their best friends; for so, undoubtedly, those are, whether ministers or others, who tell them the truth, and deal freely and faithfully with them in matters relating to their eternal salvation, as the apostle now did with these Christians.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

He plainly did not incur their enmity at his first visit, and the words here imply that he had since then, and before his now writing, incurred it: so that the occasion of his telling them the unwelcome truth, must have been at his second visit (Ac 18:23, see my Introduction). The fool and sinner hate a reprover. The righteous love faithful reproof (Ps 141:5;

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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