Galatians 4:12

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

I beg you, brothers and sisters, become like me, because I have become like you. You have done me no wrong!

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  • Gen 34:15 : 15 We will give you our consent on this one condition: You must become like us by circumcising all your males.
  • 1 Kgs 22:4 : 4 Then he said to Jehoshaphat,“Will you go with me to attack Ramoth Gilead?” Jehoshaphat replied to the king of Israel,“I will support you; my army and horses are at your disposal.”
  • 2 Cor 2:5 : 5 But if anyone has caused sadness, he has not saddened me alone, but to some extent(not to exaggerate) he has saddened all of you as well.
  • 2 Cor 6:13 : 13 Now as a fair exchange– I speak as to my children– open wide your hearts to us also.
  • Gal 2:14 : 14 But when I saw that they were not behaving consistently with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all,“If you, although you are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you try to force the Gentiles to live like Jews?”
  • Gal 6:14 : 14 But may I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
  • Acts 21:21 : 21 They have been informed about you– that you teach all the Jews now living among the Gentiles to abandon Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or live according to our customs.
  • 1 Cor 9:20-23 : 20 To the Jews I became like a Jew to gain the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law(though I myself am not under the law) to gain those under the law. 21 To those free from the law I became like one free from the law(though I am not free from God’s law but under the law of Christ) to gain those free from the law. 22 To the weak I became weak in order to gain the weak. I have become all things to all people, so that by all means I may save some. 23 I do all these things because of the gospel, so that I can be a participant in it.
  • Phil 3:7-8 : 7 But these assets I have come to regard as liabilities because of Christ. 8 More than that, I now regard all things as liabilities compared to the far greater value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things– indeed, I regard them as dung!– that I may gain Christ,
  • Gal 6:18 : 18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers and sisters. Amen.

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    16I encourage you, then, be imitators of me.

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    1Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ.

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    13For how were you treated worse than the other churches, except that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this injustice!

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  • Gal 4:11
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    11I fear for you that my work for you may have been in vain.

  • 2 Cor 12:11
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    11The Signs of an Apostle I have become a fool. You yourselves forced me to do it, for I should have been commended by you. For I lack nothing in comparison to those“super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.

  • Gal 4:13-15
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    13Personal Appeal of Paul But you know it was because of a physical illness that I first proclaimed the gospel to you,

    14and though my physical condition put you to the test, you did not despise or reject me. Instead, you welcomed me as though I were an angel of God, as though I were Christ Jesus himself!

    15Where then is your sense of happiness now? For I testify about you that if it were possible, you would have pulled out your eyes and given them to me!

  • 2 Cor 10:1-2
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    17Be imitators of me, brothers and sisters, and watch carefully those who are living this way, just as you have us as an example.

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    1Live in Unity I, therefore, the prisoner for the Lord, urge you to live worthily of the calling with which you have been called,

  • 1 Thess 2:14
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    14For you became imitators, brothers and sisters, of God’s churches in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, because you too suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they in fact did from the Jews,

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    17Therefore if you regard me as a partner, accept him as you would me.

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    1Paul and His Opponents I wish that you would be patient with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you are being patient with me!

  • Rom 15:30
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    30Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit, to join fervently with me in prayer to God on my behalf.

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  • 1 Thess 4:1
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  • 2 Cor 12:16-17
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    6I have applied these things to myself and Apollos because of you, brothers and sisters, so that through us you may learn“not to go beyond what is written,” so that none of you will be puffed up in favor of the one against the other.

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    13Now as a fair exchange– I speak as to my children– open wide your hearts to us also.

  • Gal 4:20
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    20I wish I could be with you now and change my tone of voice, because I am perplexed about you.

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    19For since I am free from all I can make myself a slave to all, in order to gain even more people.

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    8Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love for him.

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    13For I do not say this so there would be relief for others and suffering for you, but as a matter of equality.

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    10Am I now trying to gain the approval of people, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ!

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