Galatians 4:17
They are not rightly zealous after you, but desire to shut you out [from us], that ye may be zealous after them.
Darby Translation
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 I have become your enemy in speaking the truth to you?
Cross References
Romans 10:2For I bear them witness that they have zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
1 Corinthians 4:8Already ye are filled; already ye have been enriched; ye have reigned without us; and I would that ye reigned, that *we* also might reign with you.
1 Corinthians 11:2Now I praise you, that in all things ye are mindful of me; and that as I have directed you, ye keep the directions.
2 Corinthians 11:13For such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.
Philippians 2:21For all seek their own things, not the things of Jesus Christ.
2 Peter 2:18For [while] speaking great highflown words of vanity, they allure with [the] lusts of [the] flesh, by dissoluteness, those who have just fled those who walk 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 →