Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, O my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you. Because you have sold yourself to do what is evil in the sight of the Lord,
Galatians 4:16 - New Revised Standard Version Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Have I then become your enemy by telling the truth to you and dealing sincerely with you? American Standard Version (1901) So then am I become your enemy, by telling you the truth? Common English Bible So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth? Catholic Public Domain Version So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Am I then become your enemy, because I tell you the truth? |
Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, O my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you. Because you have sold yourself to do what is evil in the sight of the Lord,
and say, ‘Thus says the king: Put this fellow in prison, and feed him on reduced rations of bread and water until I come in peace.’ ”
The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is still one other by whom we may inquire of the Lord, Micaiah son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he never prophesies anything favorable about me, but only disaster.” Jehoshaphat said, “Let the king not say such a thing.”
But as he was speaking the king said to him, “Have we made you a royal counselor? Stop! Why should you be put to death?” So the prophet stopped, but said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my advice.”
Let the righteous strike me; let the faithful correct me. Never let the oil of the wicked anoint my head, for my prayer is continually against their wicked deeds.
A scoffer who is rebuked will only hate you; the wise, when rebuked, will love you.
They hate the one who reproves in the gate, and they abhor the one who speaks the truth.
The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify against it that its works are evil.
But when I saw that they were not acting consistently 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 compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?”
we did not submit to them even for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might always remain with you.
What has become of the goodwill you felt? For I testify that, had it been possible, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me.
They make much of you, but for no good purpose; they want to exclude you, so that you may make much of them.