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


In Context

15 Where then is that gratulation of yourselves? for I bear you witness, that, if possible, ye would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.

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

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

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

19 My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you--

20 but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone; for I am perplexed about you.

Galatians 4:18 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:18But [it is] good to be zealously affected always in [a] good [thing,] and not only when I am present with you.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:18It is fine to be zealous, provided the purpose is good, and to be so always and not just when I am with you.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:18But be zealous for that which is good in a good thing always: and not only when I am present with you.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:18But it is right to be zealous at all times in what is right, and not only when I am present with you —

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:18But it is good to be zealously sought in a good matter at all times, and not only when I am present with you.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:18But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:18But it is always good to be zealous in a good cause, and not only when I am present with you.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:18and it is good to be zealously regarded, in what is good, at all times, and not only in my being present with you;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:18But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.