Galatians 4:17
They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
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 by telling you the truth?
18But it is always good to be zealous in a good cause, and not only when I am present with you.
Cross References
Romans 10:2For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
1 Corinthians 4:8You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign with you!
1 Corinthians 11:2Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.
2 Corinthians 11:13For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.
Philippians 2:21For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.
2 Peter 2:18For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed 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 →