Galatians 4:16 · KJV
“Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?”
— Galatians 4:16
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}
They zealously affect you, {but} not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them. {exclude you: or, exclude us}
Galatians 4 — Context
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.
15Where 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}
16Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
17They zealously affect you, {but} not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them. {exclude you: or, exclude us}
18But {it is} good to be zealously affected always in {a} good {thing}, and not only when I am present with you.
Cross References
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.
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? {hinder you: or, drive you back}
Psalms 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. {me; it shall be a...: or, me kindly, and reprove me; let not their precious oil break, etc}
Galatians 2:5
To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.
1 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.
John 7:7
The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.