Galatians 4:16

Geneva Bible (1560)

Am I therefore become your enemie, because I tell you the trueth?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὥστε ἐχθρὸς ὑμῶν γέγονα, ἀληθεύων ὑμῖν;

Transliteration

So echthros of you I have gegona, alētheuōn to you?

Grammar Details

• *echthros*: nominative, masculine, singular - enemy/hostile person
• *gegona*: perfect active indicative, 1st person singular - I have become
• *alētheuōn*: present active participle, nominative, masculine, singular - speaking truth

Word Meanings

• *echthros*: enemy/hostile person/opponent
• *gegona*: I have become/turned into
• *alētheuōn*: speaking truth/telling the truth/being truthful

Referenced Verses

• Amos 5:10 : 10 They haue hated him, that rebuked in the gate: and they abhorred him that speaketh vprightly.
• John 7:7 : 7 The world can not hate you: but me it hateth, because I testifie of it, that the workes thereof are euill.
• Ps 141:5 : 5 Let the righteous smite me: for that is a benefite: and let him reprooue me, and it shalbe a precious oyle, that shall not breake mine head: for within a while I shall euen pray in their miseries.
• Prov 9:8 : 8 Rebuke not a scorner, least he hate thee: but rebuke a wise man, and he will loue thee.
• Gal 2:5 : 5 To whom we gaue not place by subiection for an houre, that the trueth of the Gospel might continue with you.
• Gal 5:7 : 7 Ye did runne well: who did let you, that ye did not obey the trueth?
• John 8:45 : 45 And because I tell you the trueth, yee beleeue me not.
• 1 Kgs 21:20 : 20 And Ahab sayd to Eliiah, Hast thou found mee, O mine enemie? And he answered, I haue found thee: for thou hast solde thy selfe to worke wickednes in the sight of the Lord.
• 1 Kgs 22:8 : 8 And the King of Israel said vnto Iehoshaphat, There is yet one man (Michaiah the sonne of Imlah) by whom we may aske counsel of the Lord, but I hate him: for he doeth not prophecie good vnto me, but euill; Iehoshaphat sayd, Let not the King say so.
• 1 Kgs 22:27 : 27 And say, Thus saith the King, Put this man in the prison house, and feede him with bread of affliction, and with water of affliction, vntill I returne in peace.
• 2 Chr 24:20-22 : 20 And the Spirit of God came vpon Zechariah the sonne of Iehoiada the Priest, which stoode aboue the people, and sayde vnto them, Thus sayth God, Why transgresse ye the commaundements of the Lorde? surely ye shall not prosper: because ye haue forsaken the Lorde, he also hath forsaken you. 21 Then they conspired against him & stoned him with stones at the commandement of the King, in the court of the house of the Lord. 22 Thus Ioash the King remembred not the kindnesse which Iehoiada his father had done to him, but slewe his sonne; when he dyed, he sayd, The Lord looke vpon it, and require it.
• 2 Chr 25:16 : 16 And as he talked with him, he said vnto him, Haue they made thee the Kings counseler? cease thou: why should they smite thee? And the Prophet ceased, but said, I knowe that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not obeyed my counsell.
• 1 Kgs 18:17-18 : 17 And when Ahab saw Eliiah, Ahab said vnto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel? 18 And he answered, I haue not troubled Israel, but thou, and thy fathers house, in that ye haue forsaken the commandements of the Lord, and thou hast followed Baalim.
• Gal 2:14 : 14 But when I saw, that they went not ye right way to the trueth of ye Gospel, I sayd vnto Peter before all men, If thou being a Iewe, liuest as the Gentiles, and not like the Iewes, why constrainest thou the Gentiles to doe like the Iewes?
• Gal 3:1-4 : 1 O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the trueth, to whome Iesus Christ before was described in your sight, and among you crucified? 2 This only would I learne of you, Receiued ye the Spirit by the workes of the Lawe, or by the hearing of faith preached? 3 Are ye so foolish, that after ye haue begun in the Spirit, ye would now be made perfect by the flesh? 4 Haue ye suffered so many things in vaine? If so be it be euen in vaine.