Galatians 4:16

Paul's Personal Appeal

¹⁵ Where then is your satisfaction? For I testify to you, that if possible, having plucked your eyes out, ye would have given them to me. ¹⁶ So then have I become your enemy telling you the truth? ¹⁷ They are zealous for you but not honorably. They want to exclude you, so that ye may be zealous for them.

I Tell You the Truth

Your Enemy

No

Galatians 2:5

to whom we yielded in subjection not even for an hour, so that the truth of the good-news might continue with you.

1 Kings 18:17-18

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

1 Kings 21:20

And Ahab said to Elijah, Have thou found me, O my enemy? And he answered, I have found thee because thou have sold thyself to do that which is evil in the sight of LORD.

1 Kings 22:8

And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, there is yet one man by whom we may inquire of LORD, Micaiah the son of Imlah, but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the kin

1 Kings 22:27

and say, Thus says the king, Put this fellow 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 above the people, and said to them, Thus says God, Why do ye transgress the commandments of LORD, so that ye cannot prosper? Because ye have for

2 Chronicles 25:16

And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that [the king] said to him, Have we made thee of the king's counsel? Cease. Why should thou be smitten? Then the prophet ceased, and said, I know that God has determined to destroy thee,

Psalm 141:5

Let a righteous man smite me, [as] a kindness. And let him reprove me, [as] oil upon the head. Let not my head refuse it. For even in their wickedness my prayer shall continue.

Proverbs 9:8

Reprove not a scoffer, lest he hate thee. Reprove a wise man, and he will love thee.

Amos 5:10

They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks uprightly.

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

John 8:45

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

Galatians 2:14

But when I saw that they did not walk uprightly toward the truth of the good-news, I said to Peter before all, If thou being a Jew, live as a Gentile and not as a Jew, why do thou compel the Gentiles to live as Jews?

Galatians 3:1-4

O foolish Galatians, who bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was earlier described among you, crucified?

Galatians 5:7

Ye were running well. Who hindered you, not to obey the truth?