Galatians 4:16

Paul asks whether telling them the truth has made him their enemy. Faithful truth-telling, though painful, is an act of love, not hostility.

Cross-references · 15

• Amos 5:10They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.
• Prov 9:8Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise man, and he will love you.
• John 8:45But because I tell the truth, you don’t believe me.
• Gal 5:7You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?
• Ps 141:5Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.
• Gal 2:5to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you.
• John 7:7The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.
• 1 Kgs 22:8The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.” Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say so.”
• 1 Kgs 21:20Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in Yahweh’s sight.
• 1 Kgs 18:17–18When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is that you, you troubler of Israel?”
• Gal 3:1–4Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?
• 2 Chr 25:16As he talked with him, the king said to him, “Have we made you one of the king’s counselors? Stop! Why should you be struck down?” Then the prophet stopped, and said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this, and have not listened to my counsel.”
• 2 Chr 24:20–22The Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people, and said to them, “Thus says God, ‘Why do you disobey Yahweh’s commandments, so that you can’t prosper? Because you have forsaken Yahweh, he has also forsaken you.’”
• Gal 2:14But when I saw that they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?
• 1 Kgs 22:27Say, ‘Thus says the king, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.”’”

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