Galatians 4:19 My dear children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
My dear children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,

English Standard Version
my little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you!

New American Standard Bible
My children, with whom I am again in labor until Christ is formed in you--

King James Bible
My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
My children, I am again suffering labor pains for you until Christ is formed in you.

International Standard Version
My children, I am suffering birth pains for you again until the Messiah is formed in you.

American Standard Version
My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you--

Douay-Rheims Bible
My little children, of whom I am in labour again, until Christ be formed in you.

Darby Bible Translation
my children, of whom I again travail in birth until Christ shall have been formed in you:

Young's Literal Translation
my little children, of whom again I travail in birth, till Christ may be formed in you,

Cross References

1 Corinthians 4:15
For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have you not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

2 Corinthians 12:14
Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not your's but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Ephesians 4:13
Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ:

1 Thessalonians 2:7
But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherishes her children:

1 John 2:1
My little children, these things write I to you, that you sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

3 John 1:4
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

4:19,20 The Galatians were ready to account the apostle their enemy, but he assures them he was their friend; he had the feelings of a parent toward them. He was in doubt as to their state, and was anxious to know the result of their present delusions. Nothing is so sure a proof that a sinner has passed into a state of justification, as Christ being formed in him by the renewal of the Holy Spirit; but this cannot be hoped for, while men depend on the law for acceptance with God.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

19. My little children—(1Ti 1:18; 2Ti 2:1; 1Jo 2:1). My relation to you is not merely that of one zealously courting you (Ga 4:17, 18), but that of a father to his children (1Co 4:15).

I travail in birth—that is, like a mother in pain till the birth of her child.

again—a second time. The former time was when I was "present with you" (Ga 4:18; compare Note, see on [2353]Ga 4:13).

Christ be formed in you—that you may live nothing but Christ, and think nothing but Christ (Ga 2:20), and glory in nothing but Him, and His death, resurrection, and righteousness (Php 3:8-10; Col 1:27).