Galatians 4:17

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They are zealous for you, but not in a good way. They want to exclude you, so that you might be zealous for them.

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  • Rom 16:18 : 18 For such people are not serving our Lord Christ but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery, they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.
  • 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 In their greed, they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
  • Matt 23:15 : 15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a child of hell as you are.
  • 2 Cor 11:13-15 : 13 For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. 14 And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. 15 It is not surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be according to their deeds.
  • Gal 6:12-13 : 12 Those who want to make a good impression in the flesh are the ones compelling you to be circumcised—only so that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ. 13 For even those who are circumcised do not keep the law themselves, but they want you to be circumcised so they can boast about your flesh.
  • Phil 2:21 : 21 For they all seek their own interests, not those of Christ Jesus.
  • Rom 10:2 : 2 I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but it is not based on true knowledge.
  • 1 Cor 4:8 : 8 Already you are full! Already you are rich! You have begun to reign without us—and how I wish that you really had begun to reign, so that we also might reign with you!
  • 1 Cor 4:18 : 18 Some of you have become arrogant, as though I were not coming to you.
  • 1 Cor 11:2 : 2 I praise you, brothers and sisters, because you remember me in everything and hold fast to the traditions just as I delivered them to you.
  • 2 Cor 11:3 : 3 But I am afraid that, just as the serpent deceived Eve by its cunning, your minds may be led astray from sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
  • 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 For they utter arrogant, empty words and entice those who are barely escaping from others living in error, by appealing to the lustful desires of the flesh and by debauchery.

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    2I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but it is not based on true knowledge.

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    15It is true that some preach Christ out of envy and rivalry, but others out of goodwill.

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    12Those who want to make a good impression in the flesh are the ones compelling you to be circumcised—only so that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

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    12I wish those who unsettle you would go all the way and emasculate themselves!

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