17They are not rightly zealous after you, but desire to shut you out from us, that ye may be zealous after them.


In Context

14 and my temptation, which was in my flesh, ye did not slight nor reject with contempt; but ye received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.

15 What then was your blessedness? for I bear you witness that, if possible, plucking out your own eyes ye would have given them to me.

16 So I have become your enemy in speaking the truth to you?

17 They are not rightly zealous after you, but desire to shut you out from us, that ye may be zealous after them.

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

19 my children, of whom I again travail in birth until Christ shall have been formed in you:

Galatians 4:17 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:17They zealously affect you, [but] not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:17Those people are zealous to win you over, but for no good. What they want is to alienate you from us, so that you may be zealous for them.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:17They are zealous in your regard not well: but they would exclude you, that you might be zealous for them.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:17They zealously seek you in no good way; nay, they desire to shut you out, that ye may seek them.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:17They zealously seek you in no good way; nay, they desire to shut you out, that ye may seek them.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:17They zealously affect you, but not well; for, they would exclude you, that ye may affect them.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:17They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:17they are zealous for you — yet not well, but they wish to shut us out, that for them ye may be zealous;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:17They zealously affect you, but not well; yes, they would exclude you, that you might affect them.