Galatians 4:17

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Rom 16:18 : 18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and fair speech they beguile the hearts of the innocent.
  • 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 And in covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose sentence now from of old lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.
  • Matt 23:15 : 15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he is become so, ye make him twofold more a son of hell than yourselves.
  • 2 Cor 11:13-15 : 13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, fashioning themselves into apostles of Christ. 14 And no marvel; for even Satan fashioneth himself into an angel of light. 15 It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also fashion themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works.
  • Gal 6:12-13 : 12 As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ. 13 For not even they who receive circumcision do themselves keep the law; but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.
  • Phil 2:21 : 21 For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.
  • Rom 10:2 : 2 For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
  • 1 Cor 4:8 : 8 Already are ye filled, already ye are become rich, ye have come to reign without us: yea and I would that ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.
  • 1 Cor 4:18 : 18 Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.
  • 1 Cor 11:2 : 2 Now I praise you that ye remember me in all things, and hold fast the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.
  • 2 Cor 11:3 : 3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity and the purity that is toward Christ.
  • 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 For, uttering great swelling [words] of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that live in error;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gal 4:18
    84%

    18But it is good to be zealously sought in a good matter at all times, and not only when I am present with you.

  • Gal 4:15-16
    2 verses
    77%

    15Where then is that gratulation of yourselves? for I bear you witness, that, if possible, ye would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.

    16So then am I become your enemy, by telling you the truth?

  • Rom 10:2
    73%

    2For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

  • 1 Pet 4:4
    72%

    4wherein they think it strange that ye run not with [them] into the same excess of riot, speaking evil of [you] :

  • Phil 1:15-17
    3 verses
    72%

    15Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:

    16the one [do it] of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel;

    17but the other proclaim Christ of faction, not sincerely, thinking to raise up affliction for me in my bonds.

  • 1 Thess 2:14-17
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    72%

    14For ye, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus: for ye also suffered the same things of your own countrymen, even as they did of the Jews;

    15who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove out us, and pleased not God, and are contrary to all men;

    16forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always: but the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.

    17But we, brethren, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence not in heart, endeavored the more exceedingly to see your face with great desire:

  • Gal 6:12-13
    2 verses
    72%

    12As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

    13For not even they who receive circumcision do themselves keep the law; but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.

  • Rom 16:17-18
    2 verses
    72%

    17Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them that are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which ye learned: and turn away from them.

    18For they that are such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and fair speech they beguile the hearts of the innocent.

  • Phil 2:20-21
    2 verses
    71%

    20For I have no man likeminded, who will care truly for your state.

    21For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

  • Gal 5:12
    70%

    12I would that they that unsettle you would even go beyond circumcision.

  • Gal 2:4
    70%

    4and that because of the false brethren privily brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:

  • 1 Thess 2:8
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    8even so, being affectionately desirous of you, we were well pleased to impart unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were become very dear to us.

  • 2 Cor 11:11-12
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    11Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.

    12But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.

  • Gal 4:11-12
    2 verses
    69%

    11I am afraid of you, lest by any means I have bestowed labor upon you in vain.

    12I beseech you, brethren, become as I [am], for I also [am become] as ye [are] . Ye did me no wrong:

  • Phil 4:17
    69%

    17Not that I seek for the gift; but I seek for the fruit that increaseth to your account.

  • 2 Cor 7:11
    69%

    11For behold, this selfsame thing, that ye were made sorry after a godly sort, what earnest care it wrought in you, yea what clearing of yourselves, yea what indignation, yea what fear, yea what longing, yea what zeal, yea what avenging! In everything ye approved yourselves to be pure in the matter.

  • Gal 5:7
    69%

    7Ye were running well; who hindered you that ye should not obey the truth?

  • Phil 4:10
    69%

    10But I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at length ye have revived your thought for me; wherein ye did indeed take thought, but ye lacked opportunity.

  • Col 2:4
    69%

    4This I say, that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

  • Gal 2:10
    69%

    10only [they would] that we should remember the poor; which very thing I was also zealous to do.

  • Phil 1:10
    69%

    10so that ye may approve the things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and void of offence unto the day of Christ;

  • Phil 1:8
    69%

    8For God is my witness, how I long after you all in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

  • 2 Cor 12:20
    68%

    20For I fear, lest by any means, when I come, I should find you not such as I would, and should myself be found of you such as ye would not; lest by any means [there should be] strife, jealousy, wraths, factions, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults;

  • Acts 14:2
    68%

    2But the Jews that were disobedient stirred up the souls of the Gentiles, and made them evil affected against the brethren.

  • Gal 1:7
    68%

    7which is not another [gospel] only there are some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.

  • 2 Cor 11:2
    68%

    2For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy: for I espoused you to one husband, that I might present you [as] a pure virgin to Christ.

  • 2 Cor 2:4
    68%

    4For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly unto you.

  • 1 Cor 4:6
    68%

    6Now these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye might learn not [to go] beyond the things which are written; that no one of you be puffed up for the one against the other.

  • 2 Cor 8:13
    68%

    13For [I say] not [this] that others may be eased [and] ye distressed;

  • 2 Cor 8:4
    68%

    4beseeching us with much entreaty in regard of this grace and the fellowship in the ministering to the saints:

  • 2 Cor 12:15-17
    3 verses
    68%

    15And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

    16But be it so, I did not myself burden you; but, being crafty, I caught you with guile.

    17Did I take advantage of you by any one of them whom I have sent unto you?

  • Gal 5:26
    68%

    26Let us not become vainglorious, provoking one another, envying one another.

  • Phlm 1:13-14
    2 verses
    68%

    13whom I would fain have kept with me, that in thy behalf he might minister unto me in the bonds of the gospel:

    14but without thy mind I would do nothing; that thy goodness should not be as of necessity, but of free will.

  • 2 Cor 9:5
    68%

    5I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your aforepromised bounty, that the same might be ready as a matter of bounty, and not of extortion.

  • Jas 2:4
    68%

    4do ye not make distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

  • Rom 11:28
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    28As touching the gospel, they are enemies for your sake: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sake.