Parallel Verses
Common New Testament
They seek you, but for no good purpose; they want to shut you out, so that you may 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.
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.
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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References
Fausets
Word Count of 36 Translations in Galatians 4:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
Paul's Personal Appeal
16 Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth? 17 They seek you, but for no good purpose; they want to shut you out, so that you may seek them. 18 But it is always good to seek a good purpose, and not only when I am present with you.
Names
Cross References
Matthew 23:15
"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel land and sea to win a single proselyte, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.
Romans 10:2
For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but it is not according to knowledge.
Romans 16:18
For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth and flattering words they deceive the hearts of the simple.
1 Corinthians 4:8
You are already filled! You have already become rich! You have become kings without us! And indeed, I wish that you had become kings so that we also might reign with you.
1 Corinthians 4:18
Now some have become arrogant, as though I were not coming to you.
1 Corinthians 11:2
I praise you because you remember me in everything and hold firmly to the traditions, just as I delivered them to you.
2 Corinthians 11:3
But I am afraid that just as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:13-15
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.
Galatians 6:12-13
Those who want to make a good showing in the flesh try to compel you to be circumcised, and only in order that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.
Philippians 2:21
For they all seek after their own interests, not those of Christ Jesus.
2 Peter 2:3
And in their greed they will exploit you with false words; from long ago their condemnation has not been idle, and their destruction has not been asleep.
2 Peter 2:18
For speaking out arrogant words of vanity, they entice by fleshly desires, by sensuality, those who barely escape from the ones who live in error.