Parallel Verses
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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Fausets
Word Count of 36 Translations in Galatians 4:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
Paul's Personal Appeal
16 So have I become your enemy by telling you the truth? 17 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. 18 Now it is always pleasant to be eagerly sought after [provided that it is] for a good purpose, and not just when I am with you [seeking you myself—but beware of the others doing it].
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Cross References
Matthew 23:15
Romans 10:2
For I testify about them that they have a certain enthusiasm for God, but not in accordance with [correct and vital] knowledge [about Him and His purposes].
Romans 16:18
For such people do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites and base desires. By smooth and flattering speech they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting [the innocent and the naive].
1 Corinthians 4:8
[You behave as if] you are already filled [with spiritual wisdom and in need of nothing more]. Already you have become rich [in spiritual gifts]! You [in your conceit] have ascended your thrones and become kings without us; and how I wish [that it were true and] that you did reign as kings, so that we might reign with you.
1 Corinthians 4:18
Now some of you have become arrogant and pretentious, as though I were not coming to see you.
1 Corinthians 11:2
I praise and appreciate you because you remember me in everything and you firmly hold to the
2 Corinthians 11:3
But I am afraid that, even as the serpent beguiled Eve by his cunning, your minds may be corrupted and led away from the simplicity of [your sincere and] pure devotion to Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:13-15
For such men are counterfeit apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.
Galatians 6:12-13
Those who want to make a good impression in public [before the Jews] try to compel you to be circumcised, just so they will escape being persecuted for [faithfulness to] the cross of Christ.
Philippians 2:21
For the others [who deserted me after my arrest] all seek [to advance] their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.
2 Peter 2:3
And in their greed they will exploit you with false arguments and twisted doctrine. Their sentence [of condemnation which God has decreed] from a time long ago is not idle [but is still in force], and their destruction and deepening misery is not asleep [but is on its way].
2 Peter 2:18
For uttering arrogant words of vanity [pompous words disguised to sound scholarly or profound, but meaning nothing and containing no spiritual truth], they beguile and lure using lustful desires, by sensuality, those who barely escape from the ones who live in error.