Galatians 4:17
These men pay court to you, but not with honourable motives. They want to exclude you, so that you may pay court to them.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
In Context
16Can it be that I have become your enemy through speaking the truth to you?
Cross References
Romans 10:2For I bear witness that they possess an enthusiasm for God, but it is an unenlightened enthusiasm.
1 Corinthians 4:8Every one of you already has all that heart can desire; already you have grown rich; without waiting for us, you have ascended your thrones! Yes indeed, would to God that you had ascended your thrones, that we also might reign with you!
1 Corinthians 11:2Now I commend you for remembering me in everything, and because you hold fast truths and practices precisely as I have taught them to you.
2 Corinthians 11:13For men of this stamp are sham apostles, dishonest workmen, assuming the garb of Apostles of Christ.
Philippians 2:21Everybody concerns himself about his own interests, not about those of Jesus Christ.
2 Peter 2:18For, while they pour out their frivolous and arrogant talk, they use earthly cravings--every kind of immorality--as a bait to entrap men who are just escaping from the influence of 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 →