Galatians 4:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

Galatians 4:16 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.
Galatians 5:7
Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?
John 8:45
And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
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.

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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. 16)

16. Translate, “Am I then become your enemy (an enemy in your eyes) by telling you the truth” (Ga 2:5, 14)? He plainly did not incur their enmity at his first visit, and the words here imply that he had since then, and before his now writing, incurred it: so that the occasion of his telling them the unwelcome truth, must have been at his second visit (Ac 18:23, see my Introduction). The fool and s…