Galatians 4:17
They zealously seek you, but for no good purpose; they desire to alienate you, that you may be zealous for them.
New Heart English Bible
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, 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 barely escape 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 →