Galatians 4:18

It is always honorable to have your favor sought in an honorable cause, and not only when I am with you, my dear children –

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In The King James Version

But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.

In Context

17Certain people are seeking your favor, but with no honorable object. No, indeed, they want to isolate you, so that you will have to seek their favor.

19you for whom I am again enduring a mother’s pains, until a likeness to Christ will have been formed in you.

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Cross References

Psalms 69:9It was zeal for your house that consumed me, and the insults they hurled at you fell upon me.

1 Corinthians 15:58Therefore, my dear friends, stand firm, unshaken, always diligent in the Lord’s work, for you know that, in union with him, your toil is not in vain.

Galatians 4:20But I could wish to be with you now and speak in a different tone, for I am perplexed about you.

Philippians 2:12Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always been obedient in the past, so now work out your own salvation with anxious care, not only when I am with you, but all the more now that I am absent.

Revelation 3:19All whom I love I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be in earnest and repent.

Matthew Henry on Galatians 4:18-19

Affectionate Remonstrance. ( a. d. 56.) 17 They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them. 18 But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you. The apostle is still carrying on the same design as in the foregoing verses , which was, to convince the Galatians of their sin and folly in departing from the truth of the gospel: having just before been expostulating with them about the change of their behaviour… Read the whole commentary →

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