"Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first." — Galatians 4:13

Galatians 4:13 · KJV

“Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.”

— Galatians 4:13

Brethren, I beseech you, be as I {am}; for I {am} as ye {are}: ye have not injured me at all.

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.

Galatians 4 — Context

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.

Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.

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.

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. {Where...: or, What was then}

Cross References

1 Corinthians 2:3

And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

2 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.

2 Corinthians 10:10

For {his} letters, say they, {are} weighty and powerful; but {his} bodily presence {is} weak, and {his} speech contemptible. {say they: Gr. saith he}

2 Corinthians 11:30

If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.

2 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. {in him: or, with him}

Galatians 1:6

I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:

2 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.

Acts 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,