18It is fine to be zealous, provided the purpose is good, and to be so always and not just when I am with you.
18It is fine to be zealous, provided the purpose is good, and to be so always and not just when I am with you.
15 What has happened to all your joy? I can testify that, if you could have done so, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me.
16 Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?
17 Those 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.
18 It is fine to be zealous, provided the purpose is good, and to be so always and not just when I am with you.
19 My dear children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,
20 how I wish I could be with you now and change my tone, because I am perplexed about you!
4:18But [it is] good to be zealously affected always in [a] good [thing,] and not only when I am present with you.
4:18But be zealous for that which is good in a good thing always: and not only when I am present with you.
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.
4:18But it is right to be zealous at all times in what is right, and not only when I am present with you —
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.
4:18But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
4:18But it is always good to be zealous in a good cause, and not only when I am present with you.
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;
4:18But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.