Galatians 4:17 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁷ They make much of you, but for no good purpose; they want to shut you out, 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.

Galatians 4:17 Cross References

Matthew 23:15

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you traverse sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.

Romans 10:2

I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but it is not enlightened.

Romans 16:18

For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by fair and flattering words 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 even as I have delivered them to you.

1 Corinthians 4:18

Some are arrogant, as though I were not coming to you.

1 Corinthians 4:8

Already you are filled! Already you have become rich! Without us you have become kings! And would that you did reign, so that we might share the rule with you!

2 Corinthians 11:3

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

Galatians 4:16

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

Galatians 4:18

For a good purpose it is always good to be made much of, and not only when I am present with you.

Philippians 2:21

They all look after their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.

2 Peter 2:18

For, uttering loud boasts of folly, they entice with licentious passions of the flesh men who have barely escaped from those who live in error.

2 Peter 2:3

And in their greed they will exploit you with false words; from of old their condemnation has not been idle, and their destruction has not been asleep.