Galatians 4:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

My desire for you, brothers, is that you may be as I am, because I am as you are. You have done me no wrong;

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  • Gen 34:15 : 15 But on this condition only will we come to an agreement with you: if every male among you becomes like us and undergoes circumcision;
  • 1 Kgs 22:4 : 4 And he said to Jehoshaphat, Will you go with me to Ramoth-gilead to make war? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as you are: my people as your people, my horses as your horses.
  • 2 Cor 2:5 : 5 But if anyone has been a cause of sorrow, he has been so, not to me only, but in some measure to all of you (I say this that I may not be over-hard on you).
  • 2 Cor 6:13 : 13 Now to give me back payment of the same sort (I am talking as to my children), let your hearts be wide open to me.
  • Gal 2:14 : 14 But when I saw that they were not living uprightly in agreement with the true words of the good news, I said to Cephas before them all, If you, being a Jew, are living like the Gentiles, and not like the Jews, how will you make the Gentiles do the same as the Jews?
  • Gal 6:14 : 14 But far be it from me to have glory in anything, but only in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which this world has come to an end on the cross for me, and I for it.
  • Acts 21:21 : 21 And they have had news of you, how you have been teaching all the Jews among the Gentiles to give up the law of Moses, and not to give circumcision to their children, and not to keep the old rules.
  • 1 Cor 9:20-23 : 20 And to the Jews I was as a Jew, so that I might give the good news to them; to those under the law I was the same, not as being myself under the law, but so that I might give the good news to those under the law. 21 To those without the law I was as one without the law, not as being without law to God, but as under law to Christ, so that I might give the good news to those without the law. 22 To the feeble, I was as one who is feeble, so that they might have salvation: I have been all things to all men, so that some at least might have salvation. 23 And I do all things for the cause of the good news, so that I may have a part in it.
  • Phil 3:7-8 : 7 But those things which were profit to me, I gave up for Christ. 8 Yes truly, and I am ready to give up all things for the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, which is more than all: for whom I have undergone the loss of all things, and to me they are less than nothing, so that I may have Christ as my reward,
  • Gal 6:18 : 18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. So be it.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 16 So my desire is that you take me as your example.

  • 1 So take me for your example, even as I take Christ for mine.

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    13 For what is there in which you were made less than the other churches, but in the one thing that I was not a trouble to you? Let me have forgiveness for this wrong.

    14 This is now the third time that I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a trouble to you: my desire is for you, not for your property: for it is not the children's business to make store for their fathers, but the fathers for the children.

  • 11 I am in fear of you, that I may have been working for you to no purpose.

  • 11 I have been forced by you to become foolish, though it was right for my praise to have come from you: for in no way was I less than the chief of the Apostles, though I am nothing.

  • Gal 4:13-15
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    13 But you have knowledge that with a feeble body I was preaching the good news to you the first time;

    14 And you did not have a poor opinion of me because of the trouble in my flesh, or put shame on it; but you took me to your hearts as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

    15 Where then is that happy condition of yours? because I give you witness, that, if possible, you would have taken out your eyes and given them to me.

  • 2 Cor 10:1-2
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    1 Now I, Paul, myself make request to you by the quiet and gentle behaviour of Christ, I who am poor in spirit when with you, but who say what is in my mind to you without fear when I am away from you:

    2 Yes, I make my request to you, so that when I am with you I may not have to make use of the authority which may be needed against some to whom we seem to be walking after the flesh.

  • 30 Fighting the same fight which you saw in me, and now have word of in me.

  • Phlm 1:8-10
    3 verses
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    8 And so, though I might, in the name of Christ, give you orders to do what is right,

    9 Still, because of love, in place of an order, I make a request to you, I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner of Christ Jesus:

    10 My request is for my child Onesimus, the child of my chains,

  • 17 Brothers, take me as your example, and take note of those who are walking after the example we have given.

  • 1 I then, the prisoner in the Lord, make this request from my heart, that you will see that your behaviour is a credit to the position which God's purpose has given you,

  • 14 For you, my brothers, took as your examples the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; because you underwent the same things from your countrymen as they did from the Jews;

  • 5 For in my opinion, I am in no way less than the most important of the Apostles.

  • Phlm 1:16-17
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    16 No longer as a servant, but more than a servant, a brother, very dear to me specially, but much more to you, in the flesh as well as in the Lord.

    17 If then you take me to be your friend and brother, take him in as myself.

  • 1 Put up with me if I am a little foolish: but, truly, you do put up with me.

  • 30 Now I make request to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that you will be working together with me in your prayers to God for me;

  • 22 But, brothers, take kindly the words which I have said for your profit; for I have not sent you a long letter.

  • 1 And last of all, the prayer which we make to you from our heart and in the name of the Lord Jesus, is this: that as we made clear to you what sort of behaviour is pleasing to God, as in fact you are doing now, so you will go on in these ways, but more and more.

  • 19 I make this request more strongly, in the hope of coming back to you more quickly.

  • 10 Now I make request to you, my brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you will all say the same thing, and that there may be no divisions among you, so that you may be in complete agreement, in the same mind and in the same opinion.

  • 14 I am not saying these things to put you to shame, but so that, as my dear children, you may see what is right.

  • 1 Cor 9:1-2
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    1 Am I not free? am I not an Apostle? have I not seen Jesus our Lord? are you not my work in the Lord?

    2 If to others I am not an Apostle, at least I am one to you: for the fact that you are Christians is the sign that I am an Apostle.

  • 12 That is to say, that all of us may be comforted together by the faith which is in you and in me.

  • 7 Or did I do wrong in making myself low so that you might be lifted up, because I gave you the good news of God without reward?

  • 2 I make request to Euodias and Syntyche to be of the same mind in the Lord.

  • 9 And when I was present with you, and was in need, I let no man be responsible for me; for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, gave me whatever was needed; and in everything I kept myself from being a trouble to you, and I will go on doing so.

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    16 But let it be so, that I was not a trouble to you myself; but (someone may say) being false, I took you with deceit.

    17 Did I make a profit out of you by any of those whom I sent to you?

  • 6 My brothers, it is because of you that I have taken Apollos and myself as examples of these things, so that in us you might see that it is not wise to go farther than what is in the holy Writings, so that no one of you may be lifted up against his brother.

  • 11 If then it is I who am the preacher, or they, this is our word, and to this you have given your faith.

  • 13 Now to give me back payment of the same sort (I am talking as to my children), let your hearts be wide open to me.

  • 20 Truly my desire is to be present with you now, using a changed voice; for I am troubled about you.

  • 19 For though I was free from all men, I made myself a servant to all, so that more might have salvation.

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    21 I say this by way of shaming ourselves, as if we had been feeble. But if anyone puts himself forward (I am talking like a foolish person), I will do the same.

    22 Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they of Israel? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.

  • 16 I say again, Let me not seem foolish to anyone; but if I do, put up with me as such, so that I may take a little glory to myself.

  • 6 For if I had a desire to take credit to myself, it would not be foolish, for I would be saying what is true: but I will not, for fear that I might seem to any man more than he sees me to be, or has word from me that I am.

  • 12 That you may be respected by those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

  • 8 For which cause my desire is that you will make your love to him clear by your acts.

  • 13 And I am not saying this so that others may get off free, while the weight comes on you:

  • 10 Am I now using arguments to men, or God? or is it my desire to give men pleasure? if I was still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

  • 15 Now I make my request to you, my brothers, for you have knowledge that the house of Stephanas is the first-fruits of Achaia, and that they have made themselves the servants of the saints,