Bible verse
how I wish I could be with you now and change my tone, because I am perplexed about you.
Galatians 4:20 · BSB
The verses around it, from Galatians 4.
16 Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?
17 Those people are zealous for you, but not in a good way. Instead, they want to isolate you from us, so that you may be zealous for them.
18 Nevertheless, it is good to be zealous if it serves a noble purpose—at any time, and not only when I am with you.
19 My children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,
20 how I wish I could be with you now and change my tone, because I am perplexed about you.
21 Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand what the law says?
22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.
23 His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born through the promise.
24 These things serve as illustrations, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children into slavery: This is Hagar.
KJV
I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.
ASV
but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone; for I am perplexed about you.
ERV
yea, I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I am perplexed about you.
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