Galatians 4:14

KJV1611 – Modern English

And my trial which was in my flesh you did not despise or reject, but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

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  • Matt 10:40 : 40 He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.
  • 1 Thess 2:13 : 13 For this reason we also thank God without ceasing, because when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectively works also in you who believe.
  • 2 Cor 5:20 : 20 Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God.
  • Mal 2:7 : 7 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
  • Gal 4:13 : 13 You know that because of physical infirmity I preached the gospel to you at the first.
  • 1 Thess 4:8 : 8 Therefore he who despises does not despise man, but God, who has also given unto us His Holy Spirit.
  • Heb 13:2 : 2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by doing so some have entertained angels without knowing it.
  • Matt 18:5 : 5 And whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me.
  • Matt 25:40 : 40 And the King will answer and say to them, Truly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me.
  • Luke 10:16 : 16 He who hears you hears me; and he who despises you despises me; and he who despises me despises him who sent me.
  • John 13:20 : 20 Truly, truly, I say to you, He who receives whomever I send receives me; and he who receives me receives him who sent me.
  • 1 Cor 1:28 : 28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, God has chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are:
  • 1 Cor 4:10 : 10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are honored, but we are despised.
  • 2 Sam 14:17 : 17 Then your maidservant said, The word of my lord the king shall now be comforting: for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad: therefore the LORD your God will be with you.
  • 2 Sam 19:27 : 27 And he has slandered your servant to my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God; do therefore what is good in your eyes.
  • Job 12:5 : 5 He who is ready to slip with his feet is like a lamp despised in the thought of him who is at ease.
  • Ps 119:141 : 141 I am small and despised, yet I do not forget Your precepts.
  • Eccl 9:16 : 16 Then I said, Wisdom is better than strength; nevertheless, the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
  • Isa 53:2-3 : 2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground: he has no form or beauty; and when we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. 3 He is despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid, as it were, our faces from him; he was despised, and we did not esteem him.
  • Zech 12:8 : 8 In that day the LORD shall defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them in that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them.

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  • Gal 4:12-13
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    12Brethren, I urge you to become like me, for I became like you: you have not injured me at all.

    13You know that because of physical infirmity I preached the gospel to you at the first.

  • 15Where then is that blessing you spoke of? For I bear you witness that, if possible, you would have plucked out your own eyes and given them to me.

  • Gal 1:11-13
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    11But I make known to you, brothers, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man.

    12For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but through the revelation of Jesus Christ.

    13For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it.

  • 7Therefore receive one another, just as Christ also received us, to the glory of God.

  • 2 Cor 11:4-5
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    4For if someone comes and preaches another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if you receive a different spirit, which you have not received, or a different gospel, which you have not accepted, you might well bear with him.

    5For I consider that I am not in any way inferior to the very chief apostles.

  • Phlm 1:16-17
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    16No longer as a servant, but more than a servant, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord?

    17If then you count me as a partner, receive him as you would me.

  • Phil 4:14-15
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    14Nevertheless you have done well that you shared in my affliction.

    15Now you Philippians know also that at the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church shared with me concerning giving and receiving but you only.

  • 30Having the same conflict which you saw in me and now hear to be in me.

  • Gal 1:15-16
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    15But when it pleased God, who set me apart from my mother's womb and called me by his grace,

    16To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood,

  • 14For you, brothers, became followers of the churches of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus: for you also have suffered the same things from your own countrymen, just as they did from the Jews:

  • 6And you became followers of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit:

  • 7And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.

  • Phlm 1:12-13
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    12I am sending him back to you. Therefore, receive him, that is, my own heart:

    13Whom I wished to keep with me, so that he might minister to me in your place in my chains for the gospel:

  • 2 Cor 10:1-2
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    1Now I, Paul, myself plead with you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you:

    2But I plead with you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence by which I think to be bold against some who think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

  • 14But God forbid that I should boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.

  • 13For in what way were you inferior to other churches, except that I myself was not burdensome to you? Forgive me this wrong.

  • 18Let no one beguile you of your reward in a false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

  • 1I wish you would bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.

  • 7Did I commit a sin by humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God freely?

  • 14I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I warn you.

  • 5For this reason, when I could no longer endure it, I sent to know about your faith, lest by some means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor might be in vain.

  • 10But you have fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, patience,

  • 3And I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.

  • 15And his inward affection is more abundant toward you, while he remembers the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling you received him.

  • 13Therefore I ask that you not faint at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

  • 24And they glorified God because of me.

  • 6As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him:

  • 12As many as desire to make a good appearance in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only to avoid suffering persecution for the cross of Christ.

  • 17Did I make a gain of you by any of those whom I sent to you?

  • 28And not in any way terrified by your adversaries, which is to them a sign of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that from God.

  • 8Therefore, though I might be very bold in Christ to command you to do what is fitting,

  • 24Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ, for the sake of his body, which is the church:

  • 6I am amazed that you are so quickly turning away from him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different gospel,

  • 19serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears and trials which happened to me by the plotting of the Jews;

  • 6Nor did we seek glory from men, neither from you nor from others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.

  • 2Receive us; we have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have defrauded no one.

  • 27But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest when I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.

  • 10Therefore, I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.

  • 29Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such men in high esteem:

  • 4Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has reason to trust in the flesh, I more:

  • 4Have you suffered so many things in vain, if indeed it is in vain?