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Galatians 4:17

Galatians chapter 4 · verse 17 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.16So then am I become your enemy, by telling you the truth?

v.17This passage

v.18But it is good to be zealously sought in a good matter at all times, and not only when I am present with you.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Romans 10:2

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

  • Philippians 2:21

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

  • 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.