Only on this condition will we agree with you—that you will become as we are by every male among you being circumcised.
Galatians 4:12 - English Standard Version 2016 Brothers, I entreat you, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Brethren, I beg of you, become as I am [free from the bondage of Jewish ritualism and ordinances], for I also have become as you are [a Gentile]. You did me no wrong [in the days when I first came to you; do not do it now]. American Standard Version (1901) I beseech you, brethren, become as I am, for I also am become as ye are. Ye did me no wrong: Common English Bible I beg you to be like me, brothers and sisters, because I have become like you! You haven’t wronged me. Catholic Public Domain Version Brothers, I beg you. Be as I am. For I, too, am like you. You have not injured me at all. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Be ye as I, because I also am as you: brethren, I beseech you: you have not injured me at all. |
Only on this condition will we agree with you—that you will become as we are by every male among you being circumcised.
And he said to Jehoshaphat, “Will you go with me to battle at Ramoth-gilead?” And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.”
and they have been told about you that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or walk according to our customs.
Now if anyone has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in some measure—not to put it too severely—to all of you.
But when I saw that their conduct was not in step with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, “If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you force the Gentiles to live like Jews?”
You know it was because of a bodily ailment that I preached the gospel to you at first,
But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen.