¹⁵ What, then, happened to your positive attitude? For I testify that if it had been possible, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me. ¹⁶ So have I now become your enemy for telling you the truth? ¹⁷ These people who have been instructing you are devoted to you, but not in a good way. They want you to avoid me so that you will be devoted to them.

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I Tell You the Truth

Your Enemy

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Cross References

Galatians 2:5

But we did not give in to them for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might always remain with you.

1 Kings 18:17-18

When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab asked him, "Is it really you, you destroyer of Israel?"

1 Kings 21:20

Later on, Ahab asked Elijah, "Have you found me, my enemy?"

1 Kings 22:8

"There is still one man left by whom we could ask the LORD what to do," the king of Israel replied to Jehoshaphat, "but I hate him because he never prophesies anything good about me. Instead, he prophesies evil. He is Imla's son Micaiah." But Jehoshaphat rebuked Ahab, "Kings should never talk like that."

1 Kings 22:27

Give him this order: "Place him in prison on survival rations of bread and water only until I come back safely.'"

2 Chronicles 24:20-22

Then Jehoiada the priest's son Zechariah was clothed by the Spirit of God, and he stood above the people and told them, "This is what God has to say: "Why are you breaking the LORD's commandments. You'll never be successful! Because you have abandoned the LORD, he has abandoned you.'"

2 Chronicles 25:16

But even while the prophet was speaking, the king asked him, "Did we appoint you to be a royal counselor? Stop! Why should you be struck down?" So the prophet stopped speaking, but he also said, "I know God has determined to destroy you, because you've done all this and ignored my counsel."

Psalm 141:5

Let one who is righteous strike me; It is an act of gracious love. Let him rebuke me, because it is oil for my head; do not let my head refuse it. My prayers continuously will be against their wicked activities.

Proverbs 9:8

Don't rebuke a mocker or he will hate you. Rebuke a wise person, and he will love you.

Amos 5:10

They have hated those who are presenting their cases in court, detesting the one who speaks truthfully.

John 7:7

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

John 8:45

But it is because I speak the truth that you don't believe me.

Galatians 2:14

But when I saw that they were not acting consistently with the truth of the gospel, I told Cephas in front of everyone, "Though you are a Jew, you have been living like a gentile and not like a Jew. So how can you insist that the gentiles must live like Jews?"

Galatians 3:1-4

You foolish Galatians! Who put you under a spell? Was not Jesus the Messiah clearly portrayed before your very eyes as having been crucified?

Galatians 5:7

You were running the race beautifully. Who cut in on you and stopped you from obeying the truth?

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