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


In Context

14 You despised not, nor rejected: but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

15 Where is then your blessedness? For I bear you witness, that, if it could be done, you would have plucked out your own eyes, and would have given them to me.

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

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

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

19 My little children, of whom I am in labour again, until Christ be 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 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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:17They are not rightly zealous after you, but desire to shut you out from us, that ye may be zealous after 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.