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  • Galatians 4:15
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
    • 15 Where is that happiness you had? For I bear you witness that, if it had been possible, you would have gouged out your eyes and given them to me.+

  • Galatians 4:15
    The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures
    • 15 ποῦ Where οὖν therefore ὁ the μακαρισμὸς happiness ὑμῶν; of YOU? μαρτυρῶ I am bearing witness γὰρ for ὑμῖν to YOU ὅτι that εἰ if δυνατὸν possible τοὺς the ὀφθαλμοὺς eyes ὑμῶν of YOU ἐξορύξαντες having gouged out ἐδώκατέ YOU gave μοι. to me.

  • Galatians 4:15
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
    • 15 Where, then, is that happiness YOU had?+ For I bear YOU witness that, if it had been possible, YOU would have gouged out YOUR eyes and given them to me.+

  • Galatians 4:15
    The Bible in Living English
    • 15 What has become of your self-congratulation, then? for I am your witness that if it had been possible you would have dug out your own eyes and given them to me.

  • Galatians 4:15
    American Standard Version
    • 15 Where then is that gratulation of yourselves? for I bear you witness, that, if possible, ye would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.

  • Galatians 4:15
    The Emphasized Bible
    • 15 Where then is the happiness ye accounted yours? For I bear you witness—That if possible your eyes ye would have dug out and given unto me.

  • Galatians 4:15
    King James Version
    • 15 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.

  • Galatians
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985
    • 4:15 w74 575; w73 254; g58 9/8 25; w51 271

  • Galatians Study Notes—Chapter 4
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
    • 4:15

      you would have gouged out your eyes and given them to me: Paul uses a common figure of speech to emphasize how much affection the Galatians had for him. They would have been willing to sacrifice anything in his behalf, even something as precious as their eyesight. His use of this expression was especially appropriate if he suffered from a chronic eye affliction, which may have been the “physical illness” he had just mentioned.​—Ga 4:13, 14; see also Ac 23:2-5; 2Co 12:7-9; Ga 6:11.

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