17they are zealous for you — yet not well, but they wish to shut us out, that for them ye may be zealous;


In Context

14 and my trial that is in my flesh ye did not despise nor reject, but as a messenger of God ye did receive me — as Christ Jesus;

15 what then was your happiness? for I testify to you, that if possible, your eyes having plucked out, ye would have given to me;

16 so that your enemy have I become, being true to you?

17 they are zealous for you — yet not well, but they wish to shut us out, that for them ye may be zealous;

18 and it is good to be zealously regarded, in what is good, at all times, and not only in my being present with you;

19 my little children, of whom again I travail in birth, till Christ may 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 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 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.