Galatians 4:17 - Easy To Read Version Those people {\cf2\super [52]} are working hard to persuade you. But this is not good for you. Those people want to persuade you to turn against us. They want you to follow only them and no other people. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) They zealously seek you in no good way; nay, they desire to shut you out, that ye may seek them. Common English Bible 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 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 They are zealous in your regard not well: but they would exclude you, that you might be zealous for them. |
“It will be bad for you teachers of the law and Pharisees. {\cf2\super [336]} You are hypocrites. {\cf2\super [337]} You travel across the seas and across different countries to find one person that will follow your ways. When you find that person, you make him worse than you are. And you are so bad that you belong in hell!
I can say this about the Jews: They really try to follow God. But they don’t know the right way.
People like that are not serving our Lord Christ. They are only doing things to please themselves. They use fancy talk and say nice things to fool the people that don’t know about evil.
I praise you because you remember me in all things. You follow closely the teachings that I gave you.
Some of you have become boasters. You boast, thinking that I will not come to you again.
\{You think\} you have everything you need. \{You think\} you are rich. \{You think\} you have become kings without us. I wish you really were kings! Then we could be kings together with you.
But I am afraid that your minds will be led away from your true and pure following of Christ. This might happen the same as Eve was tricked (fooled) by the snake (the devil) with his evil ways.
It is good for people to show interest in you, but only if their purpose is good. This is always true. It is true when I am with you and when I am away.
Other people are interested only in their own lives. They are not interested in the work of Christ Jesus.
Those false teachers boast with words that mean nothing. They lead people into the trap \{of sin\}. They lead away people who are just beginning to come away from other people who live wrong. Those false teachers do this by using the evil things people want to do in their sinful selves.
Those false teachers only want your money. So they will use you by telling you things that are not true. But the judgment against those false teachers has been ready for a long time. And they will not escape the One (God) who will destroy them.