Galatians 4:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁷ They make much of you but for no good purpose; they want to exclude you, so that you may make much of 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ They are zealous in your regard not well: but they would exclude you, that you might be zealous for them.

Galatians 4:17 Cross References

Matthew 23:15

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cross sea and land to make a single convert, and you make the new convert twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.

Romans 10:2

For I can testify that they have a zeal for God, but it is not based on knowledge.

Romans 16:18

For such people do not serve our Lord Christ but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the simple-minded.

1 Corinthians 11:2

I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions just as I handed them on to you.

1 Corinthians 4:18

But some of you, thinking that I am not coming to you, have become arrogant.

1 Corinthians 4:8

Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! Quite apart from us you have become kings! If only you had become kings, so that we might be kings with you!

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by its cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.

Galatians 4:16

Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?

Galatians 4:18

It is good to be made much of for a good purpose at all times and not only when I am present with you.

Philippians 2:21

All of them are seeking their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.

2 Peter 2:18

For they speak bombastic nonsense, and with debased desires of the flesh they entice people who have just escaped from those who live in error.

2 Peter 2:3

And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation, pronounced against them long ago, has not been idle, and their destruction is not asleep.