Galatians 4:13 - Tree of Life Version you know it was because of a physical ailment that I proclaimed the Good News to you the first time; Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition On the contrary, you know that it was on account of a bodily ailment that [I remained and] preached the Gospel to you the first time. American Standard Version (1901) but ye know that because of an infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you the first time: Common English Bible You know that I first preached the gospel to you because of an illness. Catholic Public Domain Version But you know that, in the weakness of the flesh, I have preached the Gospel to you for a long time, and that your trials are in my flesh. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And you know, how through infirmity of the flesh, I preached the gospel to you heretofore: and your temptation in my flesh, |
Yeshua was going throughout all the Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the Good News of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and sickness among the people.
They went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Ruach ha-Kodesh to speak the word in Asia.
for they say, “His letters are weighty and strong, but his presence in person is weak and his speech of no account.”
Even if I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not so in knowledge. No, in every way we have made this clear to you in all things.
For He was crucified in weakness, yet He lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in Him, yet we shall live with Him by God’s power toward you.
I am amazed that you are so quickly turning away from the One who called you by the grace of Messiah, to a different “good news”—
I plead with you, brothers and sisters, become like me, for I became like you. You have done me no wrong—
and though my physical condition was a trial to you, you did not hate or reject me. No, you welcomed me as a messenger of God—or even as Messiah Yeshua.
To be courted is good, but let it always be in a good way—and not just when I am there with you.