Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.
Be [become: ginesthe (G1096 )] as I am - `as I, though a zealous Jew by birth (Galatians 1:14), in my life amend you cast on Jewish habits, so do ye; for I am become as ye are'-namely, in not observing legal ordinances. 'My laying them aside among Gentiles shows that I regard them as not all contributing to justification or sanctification. Do you regard them in the same light, and act accordingly.' His observing the law among the Jews was not inconsistent with this, for he did so to win them, without compromising principle (1 Corinthians 9:20-21). But the Galatian Gentiles, by adopting legal ordinances, showed they regarded them as needful for salvation.
Ye have not injured me at all - namely, when I first preached among you, and made myself as you are; namely, living as a Gentile, not as a Jew. You at that time did me no wrong; 'ye did not despise my temptation in the flesh' (Galatians 4:14); nay, you "received me as an angel of God." Then, in Galatians 4:10, he asks, 'Have I since then become your enemy by telling you the truth?'