◄ Galatians 4:20 ►
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Good News Translation
How I wish I were with you now, so that I could take a different attitude toward you. I am so worried about you!

New Revised Standard Version
I wish I were present with you now and could change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.

Contemporary English Version
I wish I were with you now. Then I would not have to talk this way. You really have me puzzled.

New American Bible
I would like to be with you now and to change my tone, for I am perplexed because of you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I would willingly be present with you now and change my voice: because I am ashamed for you.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I would willingly be present with you now and change my voice: because I am ashamed for you.

to be.

1 Corinthians 4:19-21 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will: and will know, not the speech of them that are puffed up, but the power. . . .

1 Thessalonians 2:17,18 But we, brethren, being taken away from you for a short time, in sight, not in heart, have hastened the more abundantly to see your face with great desire. . . .

1 Thessalonians 3:9 For what thanks can we return to God for you, in all the joy wherewith we rejoice for you before our God,

stand in doubt of you.

Galatians 4:11 I am afraid of you, lest perhaps I have laboured in vain among you.

Context
Paul's Fears for the Galatians
…19My little children, of whom I am in labour again, until Christ be formed in you. 20And I would willingly be present with you now and change my voice: because I am ashamed for you. 21Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, have you not read the law?…
Cross References
Mark 6:20
For Herod feared John, knowing him to be a just and holy man: and kept him, and when he heard him, did many things: and he heard him willingly.

2 Corinthians 4:8
In all things we suffer tribulation: but are not distressed. We are straitened: but are not destitute.

Galatians 4:19
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