Galatians 4:17
These men are courting your favor to no good purpose. They want to isolate you, so that you will be courting their favor.
Montgomery 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 then become your enemy, because I am telling you the truth?
Cross References
Romans 10:2For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, only it is a zeal without knowledge.
1 Corinthians 4:8But you, forsooth, are already full, are you? You are already rich? Without us you are already reigning? Yes, and I would that you did reign, so that we also might reign with you.
1 Corinthians 11:2Indeed I praise you for remembering me in everything, and because you are holding fast to the traditions just as you received them.
2 Corinthians 11:13For such fellows are sham apostles of Christ.
Philippians 2:21for they are all seeking their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.
2 Peter 2:18For speaking great swelling words of vanity, they entangle, by their lasciviousness, in the lusts of the flesh, those who are just about to escape from the men that live in misconduct.
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 →