Galatians 4:17 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

¹⁷ They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ These men [the Judaizing teachers] are zealously trying to dazzle you [paying court to you, making much of you], but their purpose is not honorable or worthy or for any good. What they want to do is to isolate you [from us who oppose them], so that they may win you over to their side and get you to court their favor.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ They zealously seek you in no good way; nay, they desire to shut you out, that ye may seek them.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ They are so concerned about you, though not with good intentions. Rather, they want to shut you out so that you would run after them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ They are not imitating you well. And they are willing to exclude you, so that you might imitate them.

Galatians 4:17 Cross References

Matthew 23:15

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

Romans 10:2

For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

Romans 16:18

For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.

1 Corinthians 11:2

Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.

1 Corinthians 4:18

Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.

1 Corinthians 4:8

Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Galatians 4:16

Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

Galatians 4:18

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

Philippians 2:21

For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.

2 Peter 2:18

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

2 Peter 2:3

And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.