Galatians 4:17
They are zealous for you but not honorably. They want to exclude you, so that ye may be zealous for them.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
In Context
16So then have I become your enemy telling you the truth?
18But to be zealous of is always good in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
Cross References
Romans 10:2For I testify to them that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
1 Corinthians 4:8Already ye are filled. Already ye have become rich. Ye reigned without us, and O that ye did indeed reign, so that we also might reign with you.
1 Corinthians 11:2Now I praise you, brothers, that ye remember me in all things and keep the traditions, just as I delivered them to you.
2 Corinthians 11:13For such men are FALSE apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves into apostles of Christ.
Philippians 2:21For they all seek the things of themselves, not the things of Christ Jesus.
2 Peter 2:18For, uttering swollen things of vanity, they entice (to sensuality by lusts of flesh) those who actually escaped from those who live in error,
Matthew Henry on Galatians 4:13-17
Affectionate Remonstrance. ( a. d. 56.) 12 Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all. 13 Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first. 14 And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus. 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… Read the whole commentary →