Galatians 4:16

Paul's Personal Appeal

¹⁵ What then was your blessedness? for I bear you witness that, if possible, plucking out your own eyes ye would have given them to me. ¹⁶ So I have become your enemy in speaking the truth to you? ¹⁷ They are not rightly zealous after you, but desire to shut you out from us, that ye may be zealous after them.

I Tell You the Truth

Your Enemy

No

Galatians 2:5

to whom we yielded in subjection not even for an hour, that the truth of the glad tidings might remain with you.

1 Kings 18:17-18

And it came to pass when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said to him, Is it thou, the troubler of Israel?

1 Kings 21:20

And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, mine enemy? And he said, I have found thee; because thou hast sold thyself to do evil in the sight of Jehovah.

1 Kings 22:8

And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Jehovah; but I hate him, for he prophesies no good concerning me, but evil: it is Micah the son of Imlah. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.

1 Kings 22:27

and thou shalt say, Thus says the king: Put this man in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.

2 Chronicles 24:20-22

And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood up above the people and said unto them, Thus saith God: Wherefore do ye transgress the commandments of Jehovah? And ye cannot prosper; for ye have forsaken Jehovah, and he hath forsaken you.

2 Chronicles 25:16

And it came to pass as he talked with him, that Amaziah said to him, Hast thou been made the king's counsellor? Forbear; why shouldest thou be smitten? Then the prophet forbore, and said, I know that God has determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened to my counsel.

Psalm 141:5

Let the righteous smite me, it is kindness; and let him reprove me, it is an excellent oil which my head shall not refuse: for yet my prayer also is for them in their calamities.

Proverbs 9:8

Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee; reprove a wise man, and he will love thee.

Amos 5:10

They hate him that reproveth in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you, but me it hates, because I bear witness concerning it that its works are evil.

John 8:45

and because I speak the truth, ye do not believe me.

Galatians 2:14

But when I saw that they do not walk straightforwardly, according to the truth of the glad tidings, I said to Peter before all, If thou, being a Jew, livest as the nations and not as the Jews, how dost thou compel the nations to Judaize?

Galatians 3:1-4

O senseless Galatians, who has bewitched you; to whom, as before your very eyes, Jesus Christ has been portrayed, crucified among you?

Galatians 5:7

Ye ran well; who has stopped you that ye should not obey the truth?