Galatians 4:17
they are zealous for you — [yet] not well, but they wish to shut us out, that for them ye may be zealous;
Young's Literal Translation
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 that your enemy have I become, being true to you?
Cross References
Romans 10:2for I bear them testimony that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge,
1 Corinthians 4:8Already ye are having been filled, already ye were rich, apart from us ye did reign, and I would also ye did reign, that we also with you may reign together,
1 Corinthians 11:2And I praise you, brethren, that in all things ye remember me, and according as I did deliver to you, the deliverances ye keep,
2 Corinthians 11:13for those such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ,
Philippians 2:21for the whole seek their own things, not the things of the Christ Jesus,
2 Peter 2:18for overswellings of vanity speaking, they do entice in desires of the flesh — lasciviousnesses, those who had truly escaped from those conducting themselves 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 →