Galatians 2:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶But of these who seemed to be somewhat ,(whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man's person:) for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me:

Galatians 2:6 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Galatians 2:2
And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.
Acts 10:34
Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:
2 Corinthians 12:11
I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
2 Corinthians 11:5
For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
Galatians 6:3
For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-10)

It should seem, by the account Paul gives of himself in this chapter, that, from the very first preaching and planting of Christianity, there was a difference of apprehension between those Christians who had first been Jews and those who had first been Gentiles. Many of those who had first been Jews retained a regard to the ceremonial law, and strove to keep up the reputation of that; but those wh…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

6. Greek, “From those who,” &c. He meant to complete the sentence with “I derived no special advantage”; but he alters it into “they ... added nothing to me.” accepteth--so as to show any partiality; “respecteth no man’s person” (Ep 6:9). seemed to be somewhat--that is, not that they seemed to be what they were not, but “were reputed as persons of some consequence”; not insinuating a doubt but tha…