Galatians 4:16 Cross References - NSB

¹⁶ So then have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?

¹⁷ Ahab saw Elijah. He said: »Is it you, Israel’s troublemaker?« ¹⁸ Then he said in answer: »I have not made trouble for Israel. You and your family have. You have disobeyed Jehovah’s commands and have gone after the Baals.

²⁰ Ahab said to Elijah: »Have you come face to face with me, O my enemy?« Elijah said: »I have come to you because you have given yourself up to do evil in the eyes of Jehovah.«

⁸ Ahab answered: »There is one more, Micaiah son of Imlah. But I hate him because he never prophesies anything good for me, always something bad.« »The king should not say such things!« Jehoshaphat replied.

²⁷ »‘Tell them: ‘It is the king's order that this man is to be put in prison and given prison food till I come again in peace.’«

²⁰ God’s Spirit spoke to Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest. Zechariah told everyone that God was saying: »Why are you disobeying me and my Laws? This will only bring punishment! You have deserted me, so now I will desert you.« ²¹ They plotted against Zechariah. Then they followed the king’s order and stoned him to death in the courtyard of Jehovah’s Temple. ²² King Joash forgot that Zechariah’s father had always been a loyal friend. So when the people of Judah plotted to kill Zechariah, Joash joined them and gave orders for them to stone him to death in the courtyard of the Temple. As Zechariah was dying, he said: »I pray that Jehovah will see this and punish all of you.«

¹⁶ The king asked him: »Did we make you an adviser to the king? Stop! Do you want me to have you killed?« The prophet stopped. He said: »I know that God has decided to destroy you because you did this. Yet you refuse to listen to my advice.«

⁵ A righteous person may strike me or correct me out of kindness. It is like lotion for my head. My head will not refuse it, because my prayer is directed against evil deeds.

⁸ Correct a scoffer (mocker) (scorner) and he will hate you. Reprove a wise man and he will love you.

¹⁰ You hate the one who reproves in the gate, and abhor him who speaks the truth (with integrity).

⁷ »The world has no reason to hate you. But it hates me because I testify that its works are evil.

⁴⁵ »I tell you the truth and you do not believe me.

⁵ We did not yield to them for a moment or an hour! That way the truth of the good news (the whole body of Christian teachings) might continue with you.

¹⁴ I saw that they did not walk uprightly according to the truth of the good news. Therefore I said to Cephas, in front of them all: »If you, being a Jew, live as the nations do and not as the Jews, why do you compel the people of the nations to live like the Jews?«

¹ O foolish Galatians, who fascinated (cast a spell over) (beguiled) (influenced) you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was openly presented impaled. ² I want to learn this from you. Did you receive the Spirit by doing the works of the law, or by having faith in what you heard? ³ Are you so foolish? After starting in the Spirit, are you now made perfect (mature) in the flesh? ⁴ Did you suffer so many things in vain? Does it have no purpose?

⁷ You were running well! Who hindered you that you should not obey the truth?