Galatians 4:17
They are emulous of you not for good; but they would shut you in, that you might be emulous of them.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
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 become your adversary, because I have preached to you the truth?
18But it is well to be emulous in good things at all time, and not only when I am with you.
Cross References
Romans 10:2For I testify of them that they have zeal for Aloha, but not in knowledge.
1 Corinthians 4:8Now you are satiated, and are rich, and without us have reigned. But I would that you did reign, that we might also reign with you!
1 Corinthians 11:2But I commend you, my brethren, that in every thing you remember me; and that as I have delivered to you precepts, you hold them.
2 Corinthians 11:13For these are apostles of falsehood and workers of deceits, assimilating themselves to the apostles of the Meshiha.
Philippians 2:21For all are seeking what is theirs, and not what is of Jeshu Meshiha.
2 Peter 2:18For while they speak scoffing words of vanity, they allure with impure desires of the flesh those who almost escaped from them who have their conversation 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 →