Galatians 4:17

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ζηλοῦσιν ὑμᾶς, οὐ καλῶς· ἀλλὰ, ἐκκλεῖσαι ὑμᾶς θέλουσιν, ἵνα αὐτοὺς ζηλοῦτε.

Transliteration

They zēlousin you, not kalōs; but, to ekkleisai you they thelousin, that them you zēloute

Grammar Details

• *zēlousin*: present active indicative, 3rd person plural - they are zealous for/eagerly desire
• *kalōs*: adverb - well/properly/honorably
• *ekkleisai*: aorist active infinitive - to exclude/shut out
• *thelousin*: present active indicative, 3rd person plural - they wish/desire
• *zēloute*: present active subjunctive, 2nd person plural - you may be zealous for

Word Meanings

• *zēlousin*: they are zealous for/eagerly desire/court
• *kalōs*: well/properly/honorably/rightly
• *ekkleisai*: to exclude/shut out/separate
• *thelousin*: they wish/desire/want
• *zēloute*: you may be zealous for/eagerly seek/court

Referenced Verses

• Rom 16:18 : 18 For they that are such serve not our Lord {G2424} 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 {G80} 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, {G3779} 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;