Galatians 4:16
Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?
BSB
ASV
So then am I become your enemy, by telling you the truth?
KJV
Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
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.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Galatians 5:7You were running so well. Who has obstructed you from obeying the truth?
leads to
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to take the prize.
O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified.
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Psalms 141:5Let the righteous man strike me; let his rebuke be an act of loving devotion. It is oil for my head; let me not refuse it. For my prayer is ever against the deeds…
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It is better to heed a wise man’s rebuke than to listen to the song of fools.
Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
Brothers, if someone is caught in a trespass, you who are spiritual should restore him with a spirit of gentleness. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted.
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Proverbs 9:8Do not rebuke a mocker, or he will hate you; rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.
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Poverty and shame come to him who ignores discipline, but whoever heeds correction is honored.
Let the righteous man strike me; let his rebuke be an act of loving devotion. It is oil for my head; let me not refuse it. For my prayer is ever against the deeds…
Do not speak to a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
