Galatians 4:17
They affect zeal for you, not honourably; but they wish to exclude us, that you may be zealously attached to them.
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
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 therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth?
Cross References
Romans 10:2For I am a witness for them, that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
1 Corinthians 4:8Now ye are full, now ye have grown rich, ye have reigned without us: and I wish indeed that you may reign, that we also might reign together with you.
1 Corinthians 11:2Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and hold fast the injunctions as I delivered them unto you.
2 Corinthians 11:13For such are fake apostles, deceitful labourers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.
Philippians 2:21For all seek their own interests, not those of Christ Jesus.
2 Peter 2:18Uttering pompous discourses of inanity, ensnaring by the lusts of the flesh, by lascivious impurities, those who had truly escaped from such as live in a course of delusion.
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 →