Galatians 4:17
They are zealous for you, but not as they ought: for they would exclude us, that ye may be zealous for them:
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
In Context
16And am I become your enemy for telling 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 4:8Ye are now full, ye are now rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I wish ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.
1 Corinthians 11:2Now I commend you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.
2 Corinthians 11:13For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transformed into apostles of Christ.
Philippians 2:21For all seek their own interests, not those of Christ Jesus.
2 Peter 2:18For when they speak swelling words of vanity, they ensnare in the lusts of the flesh, through their lasciviousness, those who had indeed withdrawn from such as deal in error;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 →