Galatians 4:17
They zealously seek you in no good way; nay, they desire to shut you out, that ye may seek them.
Revised Version 1895
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 am I become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
Cross References
Romans 10:2For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
1 Corinthians 4:8Already are ye filled, already ye are become rich, ye have reigned without us: yea and I would that ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.
1 Corinthians 11:2Now I praise you that ye remember me in all things, and hold fast the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.
2 Corinthians 11:13For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, fashioning themselves into apostles of Christ.
Philippians 2:21For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.
2 Peter 2:18For, uttering great swelling words of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that 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 →