18But it is always good to be zealous in a good cause, and not only when I am present with you.


In Context

15 What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.

16 So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?

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

18 But it is always good to be zealous in a good cause, and not only when I am present with you.

19 My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—

20 but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone, for I am perplexed about 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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:18But it is right to be zealous at all times in what is right, 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 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.