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Galatians 4:15–16

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4:15Where then is your sense of happiness22 now? For I testify about you that if it were possible, you would have pulled out your eyes and given them to me! 4:16So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?23

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Footnotes

  1. 22 Or “blessedness.”
  2. 23 Or “have I become your enemy because I am telling you the truth?” The participle ἀληθεύων (alētheuōn) can be translated as a causal adverbial participle or as a participle of means (as in the translation).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

What then has become of your blessedness? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have gouged out your eyes and given them to me. Have I then become your enemy by telling you the truth?

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Where, then, is your blessing of me now? I can testify that, if you could have done so, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me. Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Where, then, is your blessing? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me. So then, have I become your enemy because I told you the truth?

NLTNew Living Translation

Where is that joyful and grateful spirit you felt then? I am sure you would have taken out your own eyes and given them to me if it had been possible. Have I now become your enemy because I am telling you the truth?

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

So where is your blessing? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me! So then, have I become your enemy by being truthful to you?

KJV 1900King James Version

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. Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?