Galatians 4:17
They show a zeal for you, but not in honesty; yea, they wish to exclude you, that ye may be zealous for them.
Noyes 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
16So then, have I become your enemy because I tell you the truth?
Cross References
Romans 10:2For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
1 Corinthians 4:8Already ye are full; already ye are rich; without us ye have become kings; and I would indeed ye were kings, that we also might reign with you.
1 Corinthians 11:2Now I praise you, brethren, that in all things ye remember me, and hold fast the instructions, as I delivered them to you.
2 Corinthians 11:13For such are false apostles, deceitful workmen, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.
Philippians 2:21for all of them are seeking their own things, not those of Christ Jesus.
2 Peter 2:18For speaking great swelling words of vanity, they allure in the lusts of the flesh, by dissolute ways, such as were in some measure escaping 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 →