Galatians 4:17
They are zealous towards you, yet not for good; but they wish to shut you up, that ye may be zealous towards them.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
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 an enemy to you, by preaching to you the truth?
Cross References
Romans 10:2For I bear them witness, that there is in them a zeal for God; but it is not according to knowledge.
1 Corinthians 4:8Now ye are yourselves full, and enriched; and, without us, are on thrones! And I wish ye were enthroned; that we also might reign with you.
1 Corinthians 11:2Moreover I commend you, my Brethren, that in all things ye are mindful of me, and that ye hold fast the precepts as I delivered them to you.
2 Corinthians 11:13For they are false legates, crafty workers, and feign themselves to be legates of the Messiah.
Philippians 2:21For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus the Messiah.
2 Peter 2:18For, while they utter astonishing vanity, they seduce, with obscene lusts of the flesh, them who have almost abandoned these that walk 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 →