Galatians 4:17
They are zealous in your regard not well: but they would exclude you, that you might be zealous for them.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
In Context
16Am I then become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
Cross References
Romans 10:2For I bear them witness, that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
1 Corinthians 4:8You are now full; you are now become rich; you reign without us; and I would to God you did reign, that we also might reign with you.
1 Corinthians 11:2Now I praise you, brethren, that in all things you are mindful of me: and keep my ordinances as I have delivered them to you.
2 Corinthians 11:13For such false apostles are deceitful workmen, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
Philippians 2:21For all seek the things that are their own; not the things that are Jesus Christ's.
2 Peter 2:18For, speaking proud words of vanity, they allure by the desires of fleshly riotousness, those who for a little while escape, such as converse 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 →