Galatians 4:16

Paul's Personal Appeal

¹⁵ What happened to this sense of being blessed you had? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me. ¹⁶ Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth? ¹⁷ They are enthusiastic about you, but not for any good. Instead, they want to isolate you so you will be enthusiastic about them.

I Tell You the Truth

Your Enemy

No

Galatians 2:5

But we did not give up and submit to these people for even an hour, so that the truth of the gospel would be preserved for you.

1 Kings 18:17-18

When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is that you, you destroyer of Israel?”

1 Kings 21:20

Ahab said to Elijah, “So, you have caught me, my enemy.”

He replied, “I have caught you because you devoted yourself to do what is evil in the Lord’s sight.

1 Kings 22:8

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is still one man who can ask Yahweh, but I hate him because he never prophesies good about me, but only disaster. He is Micaiah son of Imlah.”

“The king shouldn’t say that!” Jehoshaphat replied.

1 Kings 22:27

and say, ‘This is what the king says: Put this guy in prison and feed him only bread and water until I come back safely.’”

2 Chronicles 24:20-22

The Spirit of God took control of Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest. He stood above the people and said to them, “This is what God says, ‘Why are you transgressing the Lord’s commands and you do not prosper? Because you have abandoned the Lord, He has abandoned you.’”

2 Chronicles 25:16

While he was still speaking to him, the king asked, “Have we made you the king’s counselor? Stop, why should you lose your life?”

So the prophet stopped, but he said, “I know that God intends to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my advice.”

Psalm 141:5

Let the righteous one strike me—
it is an act of faithful love;
let him rebuke me—
it is oil for my head;
let me not refuse it.
Even now my prayer is against
the evil acts of the wicked.

Proverbs 9:8

Don’t rebuke a mocker, or he will hate you;
rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.

Amos 5:10

They hate the one who convicts the guilty
at the city gate
and despise the one who speaks with integrity.

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you, but it does hate Me because I testify about it—that its deeds are evil.

John 8:45

Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me.

Galatians 2:14

But when I saw that they were deviating from the truth of the gospel, I told Cephas in front of everyone, “If you, who are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel Gentiles to live like Jews?”

Galatians 3:1-4

You foolish Galatians! Who has hypnotized you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was vividly portrayed as crucified?

Galatians 5:7

You were running well. Who prevented you from obeying the truth?