Galatians 4:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹³Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.

Galatians 4:13 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.
2 Corinthians 11:30
If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.
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.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 12-16)

That these Christians might be the more ashamed of their defection from the truth of the gospel which Paul had preached to them, he here reminds them of the great affection they formerly had for him and his ministry, and puts them upon considering how very unsuitable their present behaviour was to what they then professed. And here we may observe, I. How affectionately he addresses himself to them…

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

(vv. 13)

13. how through infirmity--rather, as Greek, “Ye know that because of an infirmity of my flesh I preached,” &c. He implies that bodily sickness, having detained him among them, contrary to his original intentions, was the occasion of his preaching the Gospel to them. at the first--literally, “at the former time”; implying that at the time of writing he had been twice in Galatia. See my Introductio…