Galatians 4:17
“They zelously affect you, but not well: yea, they would exclude you, that you might affect them.”
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Galatians 4:17 Context
15Where is then the blessednes you spake of? for I beare you record, that if it had bin possible, ye would haue plucked out your own eyes, and haue giuen them to me. 16Am I therefore become your enemie, because I tell you the trueth? 17They zelously affect you, but not well: yea, they would exclude you, that you might affect them. 18But it is good to bee zealously affected alwayes in a good thing, and not onely when I am present with you. 19My litle children, of whom I trauaile in birth againe, vntill Christ bee formed in you:
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They zealously affect you, [but] not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
- King James Version
They eagerly seek you, not commendably, but they wish to shut you out so that you will seek them.
- New American Standard Version (1995)