Galatians 4:16

Paul's Personal Appeal

¹⁵ What then was your blessedness? For I bear you record that, if you were able, plucking out your eyes, you would have given them to me. ¹⁶ So then did I become your enemy speaking to you the truth? ¹⁷ They are zealous for you, but not well. But they only desire to shut you out, that you be zealous to them.

I Tell You the Truth

Your Enemy

No

Galatians 2:5

to whom not even for an hour did we yield in subjection, that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.

1 Kings 18:17-18

And it happened when Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, Are you he that troubles Israel?

1 Kings 21:20

And Ahab said to Elijah, Have you found me, O my enemy? And he answered, I have found you because you have sold yourself to work evil in the sight of Jehovah.

1 Kings 22:8

And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is still one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may inquire of Jehovah. But I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.

1 Kings 22:27

and say, So says the king, Put this one in the prison and feed him with bread of affliction and the water of affliction, until I come in peace.

2 Chronicles 24:20-22

And the Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, who stood above the people and said to them, So says God, Why do you transgress the commandments of Jehovah so that you cannot be blessed? Because you have forsaken Jehovah, He has also forsaken you.

2 Chronicles 25:16

And it happened as he talked with him, the king said to him, Have we made you of the king's counsel? Stop! Why should you be stricken? And the prophet stopped. And he said, I know that God has determined to destroy you because you have done this and have not listened to my counsel.

Psalm 141:5

Let the righteous strike me; it shall be a kindness; and let him correct me, it is oil on my head, let not my head refuse it; for still my prayer also shall be against their wickedness.

Proverbs 9:8

Do not reprove a scorner, lest he hate you; give to a wise man, and he will love you.

Amos 5:10

They hate him who rebukes in the gate, and they despise him who speaks uprightly.

John 7:7

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

John 8:45

And because I tell you the truth, you do not believe Me.

Galatians 2:14

But when I saw that they did not walk uprightly with the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before all, If you, being a Jew, live as a Gentile, and not as the Jews, why do you compel the nations to judaize?

Galatians 3:1-4

O foolish Galatians, who bewitched you not to obey the truth, to whom before your eyes Jesus Christ was written among you crucified?

Galatians 5:7

You were running well. Who hindered you that you do not obey the truth?