Galatians 4:17
Certain 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.
Open English Bible (US)
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 to think, then, that I have become your enemy by telling you the truth?
Cross References
Romans 10:2I can testify that they are zealous for the honor of God; but they are not guided by true insight,
1 Corinthians 4:8Are you all so soon satisfied? Are you so soon rich? Have you begun to reign without us? Would indeed that you had, so that we also might reign with you!
1 Corinthians 11:2I praise you, indeed, because you never forget me, and are keeping my injunctions in mind, exactly as I laid them on you.
2 Corinthians 11:13Such people are false apostles, treacherous workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ!
Philippians 2:21They are all pursuing their own aims and not those of Christ Jesus.
2 Peter 2:18With boastful and foolish talk, they appeal to the passions of people’s lower nature, and, by their profligacy, entice those who are just escaping from the people who live such misguided lives.
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 →