Galatians 4:17 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

Romans 16:18

For they that are such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and fair speech they beguile the hearts of the innocent.

2 Peter 2:3

And in covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose sentence now from of old lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.

1 Corinthians 4:8

Already are ye filled, already ye are become rich, ye have reigned without us: yea and I would that ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.

Romans 10:2

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

Matthew 23:15

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

2 Peter 2:18

For, uttering great swelling words of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that live in error;

Philippians 2:21

For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity and the purity that is toward Christ.

1 Corinthians 11:2

Now I praise you that ye remember me in all things, and hold fast the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.

1 Corinthians 4:18

Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.

Galatians 4:16

So then am I become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

Galatians 4:18

But it is good to be zealously sought in a good matter at all times, and not only when I am present with you.