Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
These people who have been instructing you are devoted to you, but not in a good way. They want you to avoid me so that you will be devoted to them.
New American Standard Bible
They eagerly seek you, not commendably, but they wish to shut you out so that you will seek them.
King James Version
They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
Holman Bible
They
A Conservative Version
They are zealous for you but not honorably. They want to exclude you, so that ye may be zealous for them.
American Standard Version
They zealously seek you in no good way; nay, they desire to shut you out, that ye may seek them.
Amplified
These men [the Judaizers] eagerly seek you [to entrap you with honeyed words and attention, to win you over to their philosophy], not honorably [for their purpose is not honorable or worthy of consideration]. They want to isolate you [from us who oppose them] so that you will seek them.
An Understandable Version
Certain people are showing quite an interest in you, but it is not for your benefit. Instead, they are trying to separate you [from me], in hope that you will seek them out [for help].
Anderson New Testament
They are ardently attached to you, but not honorably; in deed, they desire to exclude us, that you may be ardently attached to them.
Bible in Basic English
Their interest in you is not good; but their desire is that you may be shut out, so that you may go after them.
Common New Testament
They seek you, but for no good purpose; they want to shut you out, so that you may seek them.
Daniel Mace New Testament
they court your affection, but not in a fair way; for they design to exclude me, that you might have the greater esteem for them.
Darby Translation
They are not rightly zealous after you, but desire to shut you out from us, that ye may be zealous after them.
Goodspeed New Testament
These men are making much of you, but not with honorable intentions. They want to shut you out, so that you will have to make much of them.
John Wesley New Testament
They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
Julia Smith Translation
They are zealous for you, not well; but they wish to exclude you, that ye might be zealous for them.
King James 2000
They are zealous of you, but not for good; yea, they would exclude you, that you might be zealous of them.
Lexham Expanded Bible
They zealously seek you, not commendably, but they want to exclude you, in order that you may seek them [zealously].
Modern King James verseion
They are zealous for you, but not well. But they only desire to shut you out, that you be zealous to them.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
They are jealous over you amiss. Yea they intend to exclude you, that ye should be fervent to them ward.
Moffatt New Testament
These men make much of you ??yes, but for dishonest ends; they want to debar you from us, so that you may make much of them.
Montgomery New Testament
These men are courting your favor to no good purpose. They want to isolate you, so that you will be courting their favor.
NET Bible
They court you eagerly, but for no good purpose; they want to exclude you, so that you would seek them eagerly.
New Heart English Bible
They zealously seek you, but for no good purpose; they desire to alienate you, that you may be zealous for them.
Noyes New Testament
They show a zeal for you, but not in honesty; yea, they wish to exclude you, that ye may be zealous for them.
Sawyer New Testament
They are zealous for you, but not well, but they wish to exclude you that you may be zealous for them.
The Emphasized Bible
They shew a zeal for you, not honourably, but wish, to shut you out, in order that ye may be zealous for, them.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
They affect zeal for you, not honourably; but they wish to exclude us, that you may be zealously attached to them.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Certain people are seeking your favor, but with no honorable object. No, indeed, they want to isolate you, so that you will have to seek their favor.
Webster
They zealously affect you, but not well; for, they would exclude you, that ye may affect them.
Weymouth New Testament
These men pay court to you, but not with honourable motives. They want to exclude you, so that you may pay court to them.
Williams New Testament
These men are paying you special attention, but not sincerely. They want to shut you off from me, so that you may keep on paying them special attention.
World English Bible
They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them.
Worrell New Testament
They are zealously seeking you, not nobly; they are wishing to shut you out, that ye may zealously seek them.
Worsley New Testament
They are zealous for you, but not as they ought: for they would exclude us, that ye may be zealous for them:
Youngs Literal Translation
they are zealous for you -- yet not well, but they wish to shut us out, that for them ye may be zealous;
Interlinear
Zeloo
Humas
ὑμᾶς
Humas
Usage: 314
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References
Fausets
Word Count of 36 Translations in Galatians 4:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
Paul's Personal Appeal
16 So have I now become your enemy for telling you the truth? 17 These people who have been instructing you are devoted to you, but not in a good way. They want you to avoid me so that you will be devoted to them. 18 (Now it is always good to be devoted to a good cause, even when I am not with you.)
Names
Cross References
Matthew 23:15
"How terrible it will be for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to make a single convert, and when this happens you make him twice as fit for hell as you are.
Romans 10:2
For I can testify on their behalf that they have a zeal for God, but it is not in keeping with full knowledge.
Romans 16:18
because such people are not serving the Messiah our Lord, but their own desires. By their smooth talk and flattering words they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.
1 Corinthians 4:8
You already have all you want! You have already become rich! You have become kings without us! I wish you really were kings so that we could be kings with you!
1 Corinthians 4:18
Some of you have become arrogant, as though I were not coming to evaluate you.
1 Corinthians 11:2
I praise you for remembering everything I told you and for holding to the traditions that I passed on to you.
2 Corinthians 11:3
However, I am afraid that just as the serpent deceived Eve by its tricks, so your minds may somehow be lured away from sincere and pure devotion to the Messiah.
2 Corinthians 11:13-15
Such people are false apostles, dishonest workers who are masquerading as apostles of the Messiah.
Galatians 6:12-13
These people who want to impress others by their external appearance are trying to force you to be circumcised, simply to avoid being persecuted for the cross of the Messiah.
Philippians 2:21
For all the others look after their own interests, not after those of Jesus the Messiah.
2 Peter 2:3
In their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. The ancient verdict against them is still in force, and their destruction is not delayed.
2 Peter 2:18
By talking high-sounding nonsense and using sinful cravings of the flesh, they entice people who have just escaped from those who live in error.