Galatians 4:18
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
Nevertheless, it is good to be zealous if it serves a noble purpose—at any time, and not only when I am with you.
In context
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,
20 how I wish I could be with you now and change my tone, because I am perplexed about you.
Galatians 4:18 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Nevertheless, it is good to be zealous if it serves a noble purpose—at any time, and not only when I am with you.
- KJV King James Version
- But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
- WEB World English Bible
- But it is always good to be zealous in a good cause, and not only when I am present with you.
- ASV American Standard Version
- But it is good to be zealously sought in a good matter at all times, and not only when I am present with you.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- and [it is] good to be zealously regarded, in what is good, at all times, and not only in my being present with you;
- DBY Darby Translation
- But [it is] right to be zealous at all times in what is right, and not only when I am present with you —
- WBS Webster Bible
- But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing , and not only when I am present with you.