"They zealously affect you, {but} not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them. {exclude you: or, exc…" — Galatians 4:17

Galatians 4:17 · KJV

“They zealously affect you, {but} not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them. {exclude you: or, exclude us}”

— Galatians 4:17

Verse 16

Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

Verse 18

But {it is} good to be zealously affected always in {a} good {thing}, and not only when I am present with you.

Galatians 4 — Context

Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if {it had been} possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me. {Where...: or, What was then}

Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

They zealously affect you, {but} not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them. {exclude you: or, exclude us}

But {it is} good to be zealously affected always in {a} good {thing}, and not only when I am present with you.

My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,

Cross References

2 Corinthians 11:13-15

For such {are} false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.

Romans 16:18

For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.

2 Peter 2:3

And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

1 Corinthians 4:8

Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.

Matthew 23:15

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

1 Corinthians 11:2

Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered {them} to you. {ordinances: or, traditions}

Romans 10:2

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

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.