Galatians 4:17
Those people are zealous for you, but not in a good way. Instead, they want to isolate you from us, so that you may be zealous for them.
Majority Standard Bible
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 now become your enemy by telling you the truth?
Cross References
Romans 10:2For I testify about them that they are zealous for God, but not on the basis of knowledge.
1 Corinthians 4:8Already you have all you want. Already you have become rich. Without us, you have become kings. How I wish you really were kings, so that we might be kings with you!
1 Corinthians 11:2Now I commend you, brothers, for remembering me in everything and for maintaining the traditions, just as I passed them on to you.
2 Corinthians 11:13For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.
Philippians 2:21For all the others look after their own interests, not those of Christ Jesus.
2 Peter 2:18With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who have truly escaped from others 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 →