Galatians 4:18

It is always an honourable thing to be courted in an honourable cause; always, and not only when I am with you, my children--

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.

In Context

17These men pay court to you, but not with honourable motives. They want to exclude you, so that you may pay court to them.

19you for whom I am again, as it were, undergoing the pains of childbirth, until Christ is fully formed within you.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 15:58Therefore, my dear brethren, be firm, unmovable, busily occupied at all times in the Lord's work, knowing that your toil is not fruitless in the Lord.

Galatians 4:20Would that I were with you and could change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.

Philippians 2:12Therefore, my dearly-loved friends, as I have always found you obedient, labour earnestly with fear and trembling--not merely as though I were present with you, but much more now since I am absent from you--labour earnestly, I say, to make sure of your own salvation.

Revelation 3:19All whom I hold dear, I reprove and chastise; therefore be in earnest and repent.

Matthew Henry on Galatians 4:18-19

Affectionate Remonstrance. ( a. d. 56.) 17 They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them. 18 But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you. The apostle is still carrying on the same design as in the foregoing verses , which was, to convince the Galatians of their sin and folly in departing from the truth of the gospel: having just before been expostulating with them about the change of their behaviour… Read the whole commentary →

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