Galatians 4:17 - Tree of Life Version

Others zealously court you—not in a good way, but they wish to shut you out so that you will court them.

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King 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.

Galatians 4:17 Tagairtí Cros

Matthew 23:15

“Woe to you, Torah scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel over land and sea to make one convert. And when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of Gehenna as yourself.

Romans 10:2

For I testify about them that they have zeal for God—but not based on knowledge.

Romans 16:18

For such people do not serve our Lord the Messiah, but only their own belly. By their smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.

1 Corinthians 11:2

Now I praise you because you remember me in everything and hold firm the traditions just as I passed them on to you.

1 Corinthians 4:18

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

1 Corinthians 4:8

Already you are full! Already you have become rich! Without us you have become kings! Indeed, I wish you were kings, so we also might be kings with you!

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your minds might be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion and purity to the Messiah.

Galatians 4:16

So have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?!

Galatians 4:18

To be courted is good, but let it always be in a good way—and not just when I am there with you.

Philippians 2:21

for all seek after their own interests, not those of Messiah Yeshua.

2 Peter 2:18

For by mouthing grandiosities that amount to nothing, they entice in sensual fleshly passions those who are barely escaping from those who live in error.

2 Peter 2:3

In their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction does not slumber.