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


In Context

14 and that which was a temptation to you in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but ye received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

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, because I tell 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,

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 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 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.