Galatians 4:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So then am I no longer your friend, because I give you true words?

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Referenced Verses

  • Amos 5:10 : 10 They have hate for him who makes protest against evil in the public place, and he whose words are upright is disgusting to them.
  • John 7:7 : 7 It is not possible for you to be hated by the world; but I am hated by it, because I give witness that what it does is evil.
  • Ps 141:5 : 5 Let the upright give me punishment; and let the god-fearing man put me in the right way; but I will not let the oil of sinners come on my head: when they do evil I will give myself to prayer.
  • Prov 9:8 : 8 Do not say sharp words to a man of pride, or he will have hate for you; make them clear to a wise man, and you will be dear to him.
  • Gal 2:5 : 5 To whom we gave way not even for an hour; so that the true words of the good news might still be with you.
  • Gal 5:7 : 7 You were going on well; who was the cause of your not giving ear to what is true?
  • John 8:45 : 45 But because I say what is true, you have no belief in me.
  • 1 Kgs 21:20 : 20 And Ahab said to Elijah, Have you come face to face with me, O my hater? And he said, I have come to you because you have given yourself up to do evil in the eyes of the Lord.
  • 1 Kgs 22:8 : 8 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is still one man by whom we may get directions from the Lord, Micaiah, son of Imlah; but I have no love for him, for he is a prophet of evil to me and not of good. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
  • 1 Kgs 22:27 : 27 And say, It is the king's order that this man is to be put in prison and given prison food till I come again in peace.
  • 2 Chr 24:20-22 : 20 Then the spirit of God came on Zechariah, the son of Jehoiada the priest, and, getting up before the people, he said to them, God has said, Why do you go against the orders of the Lord, so that everything goes badly for you? because you have given up the Lord, he has given you up. 21 But when they had made a secret design against him, he was stoned with stones, by the king's order, in the outer square of the Lord's house. 22 So King Joash did not keep in mind how good Jehoiada his father had been to him, but put his son to death. And in the hour of his death he said, May the Lord see it and take payment!
  • 2 Chr 25:16 : 16 But while he was talking to him the king said to him, Have we made you one of the king's government? say no more, or it will be the cause of your death. Then the prophet gave up protesting, and said, It is clear to me that God's purpose is your destruction, because you have done this and have not given ear to my words.
  • 1 Kgs 18:17-18 : 17 And when he saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, Is it you, you troubler of Israel? 18 Then he said in answer, I have not been troubling Israel, but you and your family; because, turning away from the orders of the Lord, you have gone after the Baals.
  • 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 3:1-4 : 1 O foolish Galatians, by what strange powers have you been tricked, to whom it was made clear that Jesus Christ was put to death on the cross? 2 Give me an answer to this one question, Did the Spirit come to you through the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 3 Are you so foolish? having made a start in the Spirit, will you now be made complete in the flesh? 4 Did you undergo such a number of things to no purpose? if it is in fact to no purpose.

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  • John 8:45-46
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    45 But because I say what is true, you have no belief in me.

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  • Gal 4:11-12
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  • 2 Cor 11:10-11
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    10 As the true word of Christ is in me, I will let no man take from me this my cause of pride in the country of Achaia.

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  • 2 Cor 13:8
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    8 Because we are able to do nothing against what is true, but only for it.

  • John 8:40
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    40 But now you have a desire to put me to death, a man who has said to you what is true, as I had it from God: Abraham did not do that.

  • Rom 9:1
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    1 I say what is true in Christ, and not what is false, my mind giving witness with me in the Holy Spirit,

  • Phil 1:16-18
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    16 These do it from love, conscious that I am responsible for the cause of the good news:

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    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.

  • 2 Cor 7:14
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    14 For I was not put to shame in anything in which I may have made clear to him my pride in you; but as we said nothing to you but what was true, so the good things which I said to Titus about you were seen by him to be true.

  • Gal 5:7
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    7 You were going on well; who was the cause of your not giving ear to what is true?

  • 3 John 1:3-4
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    3 For it gave me great joy when some of the brothers came and gave witness that you had the true faith and were walking in the true way.

    4 I have no greater joy than to have news that my children are walking in the true way.

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    32 And you will have knowledge of what is true, and that will make you free.

  • Rom 3:7
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    7 But if, because I am untrue, God being seen to be true gets more glory, why am I to be judged as a sinner?

  • 2 Cor 11:7
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    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?

  • Prov 22:21
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    21 To make you see how certain are true words, so that you may give a true answer to those who put questions to you?

  • Gal 2:14
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    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?

  • 2 Cor 12:16-17
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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?

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    14 I have given your word to them; and they are hated by the world, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

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    4 And that because of the false brothers let in secretly, who came searching out our free condition which we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might make servants of us;

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    18 For there are those, of whom I have given you word before, and do so now with sorrow, who are haters of the cross of Christ;

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    28 As far as the good news is in question, they are cut off from God on account of you, but as far as the selection is in question, they are loved on account of the fathers.

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    14 But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true.

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

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    10 I am certain about you in the Lord, that you will be of no other mind; but he who is troubling you will have his punishment, whoever he is.

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    37 I am conscious that you are Abraham's seed; but you have a desire to put me to death because my word has no place in you.

  • John 18:37
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    16 But you will be given up even by your fathers and mothers, your brothers and relations and friends; and some of you will be put to death.

  • Eph 4:25
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    25 And so, putting away false words, let everyone say what is true to his neighbour: for we are parts one of another.

  • 2 Thess 3:15
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    15 Have no feeling of hate for him, but take him in hand seriously as a brother.

  • John 5:33
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    33 You sent to John and he gave true witness.

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    7 And of this I became a preacher and an Apostle (what I say is true, not false,) and a teacher of the Gentiles in the true faith.

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    17 Make them holy by the true word: your word is the true word.

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    21 If in fact you gave ear to him, and were given teaching in him, even as what is true is made clear in Jesus:

  • 3 John 1:8
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    8 So it is right for us to take in such men as guests, so that we may take our part in the work of the true faith.

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

  • Gal 1:7
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    7 Which is not another sort: only there are some who give you trouble, desiring to make changes in the good news of Christ.

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    28 Now then, let your eyes be turned to me, for truly I will not say what is false to your face.

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    23 For I see that you are prisoned in bitter envy and the chains of sin.

  • 1 Thess 2:15
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    15 Who put to death the Lord Jesus and the prophets, violently driving us out; who are unpleasing to God and against all men;