Galatians 4:17
They are ardently attached to you, but not honorably; indeed, they desire to exclude us, that you may be ardently attached to them.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
In Context
16Have I then become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
Cross References
Romans 10:2For I testify for them, that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
1 Corinthians 4:8You, Corinthians, are already full; you are already rich; you have reigned as kings independently of us. And that you did indeed reign, that we also might reign with you!
1 Corinthians 11:2Now, I praise you, brethren, because you remember me in all things, and keep the traditions as I delivered them to you.
2 Corinthians 11:13For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ;
Philippians 2:21for all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.
2 Peter 2:18For by speaking boastful words of folly, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, and through lasciviousness, those who had really 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 →