Galatians 4:17

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

Certain people are seeking your favor, but with no honorable object. No, indeed, they want to isolate you, so that you will have to seek their favor.

Cross References

Matthew 23:15

Alas for you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You scour land and sea to make a single convert, and, when he is gained, you make him twice as deserving of the Pit as you are yourselves.

Romans 10:2

I can testify that they are zealous for the honor of God; but they are not guided by true insight,

Romans 16:18

For such persons are not serving Christ, our Master, but are slaves to their own appetites; and, by their smooth words and flattery, they deceive simple-minded people.

1 Corinthians 11:2

I praise you, indeed, because you never forget me, and are keeping my injunctions in mind, exactly as I laid them upon you.

1 Corinthians 4:18

Some, I hear, are puffed up with pride, thinking that I am not coming to you.

1 Corinthians 4:8

Are you all so soon satisfied? Are you so soon rich? Have you begun to reign without us? Would indeed that you had, so that we also might reign with you!

2 Corinthians 11:3

Yet I fear that it may turn out that, just as the Serpent by his craftiness deceived Eve, so your minds may have lost the loyalty and purity due from you to the Christ.

Galatians 4:16

Am I to think, then, that I have become your enemy by telling you the truth?

Galatians 4:18

It is always honorable to have your favor sought in an honorable cause, and not only when I am with you, my dear children--

Philippians 2:21

They are all pursuing their own aims and not those of Christ Jesus.

2 Peter 2:18

With boastful and foolish talk, they appeal to the passions of man's lower nature, and, by their profligacy, entice those who are just escaping from the men who live such misguided lives.

2 Peter 2:3

In their covetousness they will try to make you a source of profit by their fabrications; but for a long time past their Sentence has not been standing idle, nor their Ruin slumbering.