KJV King James Version
Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Galatians 4:13
Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
You know that it was because of an illness that I first preached the gospel to you.
WEB World English Bible
but you know that because of weakness of the flesh I preached the Good News to you the first time.
ASV American Standard Version
but ye know that because of an infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you the first time:
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and ye have known that through infirmity of the flesh I did proclaim good news to you at the first,
Surrounding context — Galatians 4
10 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.
11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
12 Brethren, I beseech you, be as I [am]; for I [am] as ye [are]: ye have not injured me at all.
13 Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
14 And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, [even] as Christ Jesus.
15 Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if [it had been] possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.
16 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
οἴδατεG6063 · oidato knowδὲG1161 · dethenὅτιG3754 · hotithat/since: thatδι᾽G1223 · diathrough/because ofἀσθένειανG769 · astheneiaweakness: weakτῆςG3588 · hothe/this/whoσαρκὸςG4561 · sarxfleshεὐηγγελισάμηνG2097 · euangelizomaito speak good newsὑμῖνG4771 · suyouτὸG3588 · hothe/this/whoπρότερον,G4387 · proterosbefore
Cross-references
1 Corinthians 2:3And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.2 Corinthians 12:7-10And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.2 Corinthians 10:10For [his] letters, say they, [are] weighty and powerful; but [his] bodily presence [is] weak, and [his] speech contemptible.2 Corinthians 11:30If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.Galatians 1:6I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:2 Corinthians 11:6But though [I be] rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.2 Corinthians 13:4For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.Acts 16:6Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia,
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