Galatians 4:17
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
Those people are zealous for you, but not in a good way. Instead, they want to isolate you from us, so that you may be zealous for them.
In context
15 What then has become of your blessing? For I can testify that, if it were possible, 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 for you, but not in a good way. Instead, they want to isolate you from us, so that you may be zealous for them.
18 Nevertheless, it is good to be zealous if it serves a noble purpose—at any time, and not only when I am with you.
19 My children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,
Galatians 4:17 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Those people are zealous for you, but not in a good way. Instead, they want to isolate you from us, so that you may be zealous for them.
- KJV King James Version
- They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
- WEB World English Bible
- They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them.
- ASV American Standard Version
- They zealously seek you in no good way; nay, they desire to shut you out, that ye may seek them.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- they are zealous for you — [yet] not well, but they wish to shut us out, that for them ye may be zealous;
- DBY Darby Translation
- They are not rightly zealous after you, but desire to shut you out [from us], that ye may be zealous after them.
- WBS Webster Bible
- They zealously affect you, but not well; for, they would exclude you, that ye may affect them.