Galatians 4:13
Good News Translation
You remember why I preached the gospel to you the first time; it was because I was sick.

New Revised Standard Version
You know that it was because of a physical infirmity that I first announced the gospel to you;

Contemporary English Version
when I first preached to you? No you didn't, even though you knew I had come there because I was sick.

New American Bible
you know that it was because of a physical illness that I originally preached the gospel to you,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And you know how, through infirmity of the flesh, I preached the gospel to you heretofore: and your temptation in my flesh

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And you know how, through infirmity of the flesh, I preached the gospel to you heretofore: and your temptation in my flesh

through.

1 Corinthians 2:3 And I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling.

2 Corinthians 10:10 (For his epistles indeed, say they, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak and his speech contemptible):

2 Corinthians 11:6,30 For although I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge: but in all things we have been made manifest to you. . . .

2 Corinthians 12:7-10 And lest the greatness of the revelations should exalt me, there was given me a sting of my flesh, an angel of Satan, to buffet me. . . .

2 Corinthians 13:4 For although 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 towards you.

at.

Galatians 1:6 I wonder that you are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ, unto another gospel.

Acts 16:6 And when they had passed through Phrygia and the country of Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia.

Context
Paul's Fears for the Galatians
12Be ye as I, because I also am as you brethren, I beseech you. You have not injured me at all. 13And you know how, through infirmity of the flesh, I preached the gospel to you heretofore: and your temptation in my flesh 14You despised not, nor rejected: but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.…
Cross References
Matthew 4:23
And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom: and healing all manner of sickness and every infirmity, among the people.

2 Corinthians 10:10
(For his epistles indeed, say they, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak and his speech contemptible):

Galatians 4:12
Be ye as I, because I also am as you brethren, I beseech you. You have not injured me at all.

Galatians 4:14
You despised not, nor rejected: but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

Galatians 4:18
But be zealous for that which is good in a good thing always: and not only when I am present with you.

Galatians 4:12
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