King James Version
Galatians 4:16 in the King James Version says “Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?” — study this verse from Galatians chapter 4 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?”
Galatians 4:16 · KJV
And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me. Where: or, What was then
Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them. exclude you: or, exclude us
But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“therefore”
G5620so too, i.e., thus therefore (in various relations of consecution, as follow)
“enemy”
G2190hateful (passively, odious, or actively, hostile); usually as a noun, an adversary (especially satan)
“Am I”
G1096to cause to be ("gen"-erate), i.e., (reflexively) to become (come into being), used with great latitude (literal, figurative, intensive, etc.)
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