Galatians 4:17

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Galatians 4:17

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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.

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KJV

King James Version

They zealously affect you, [but] not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.

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WEB

World English Bible

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

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ASV

American Standard Version

They zealously seek you in no good way; nay, they desire to shut you out, that ye may seek them.

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BLB

Berean Literal Bible

They are zealous for you⁺, not nobly, but they want to exclude you⁺ [from us], so that you⁺ may be zealous for them.

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

Galatians 4

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,

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