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


In Context

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:

20 and I should wish to be present with you now, and change my voice, for I am perplexed as to 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 American Standard 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 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.