Galatians 4:17

World English Bible (2000)

They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them.

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Referenced Verses

  • Rom 16:18 : 18 For those who are such don't serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.
  • 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber.
  • Matt 23:15 : 15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much of a son of Gehenna as yourselves.
  • 2 Cor 11:13-15 : 13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ's apostles. 14 And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light. 15 It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
  • Gal 6:12-13 : 12 As many as desire to look good in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ. 13 For even they who receive circumcision don't keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast 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 testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
  • 1 Cor 4:8 : 8 You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you 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, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.
  • 2 Cor 11:3 : 3 But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
  • 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gal 4:18
    84%

    18But it is always good to be zealous in a good cause, and not only when I am present with you.

  • Gal 4:15-16
    2 verses
    77%

    15What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.

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

  • Rom 10:2
    73%

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

  • 1 Pet 4:4
    72%

    4They think it is strange that you don't run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming:

  • Phil 1:15-17
    3 verses
    72%

    15Some indeed preach Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will.

    16The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;

    17but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Good News.

  • 1 Thess 2:14-17
    4 verses
    72%

    14For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews;

    15who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and didn't please 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 wrath has come on them to the uttermost.

    17But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire,

  • Gal 6:12-13
    2 verses
    72%

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

    13For even they who receive circumcision don't keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

  • Rom 16:17-18
    2 verses
    72%

    17Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

    18For those who are such don't serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

  • Phil 2:20-21
    2 verses
    71%

    20For I have no one else like-minded, who will truly care about you.

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

  • Gal 5:12
    70%

    12I wish that those who disturb you would cut themselves off.

  • Gal 2:4
    70%

    4This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;

  • 1 Thess 2:8
    70%

    8Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.

  • 2 Cor 11:11-12
    2 verses
    70%

    11Why? Because I don't love you? God knows.

    12But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.

  • Gal 4:11-12
    2 verses
    69%

    11I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.

    12I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong,

  • Phil 4:17
    69%

    17Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.

  • 2 Cor 7:11
    69%

    11For behold, this same thing, that you were made sorry in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.

  • Gal 5:7
    69%

    7You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?

  • Phil 4:10
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    10But I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at length you have revived your thought for me; in which you did indeed take thought, but you lacked opportunity.

  • Col 2:4
    69%

    4Now this I say that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

  • Gal 2:10
    69%

    10They only asked us to remember the poor--which very thing I was also zealous to do.

  • Phil 1:10
    69%

    10so that you may approve the things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ;

  • Phil 1:8
    69%

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

  • 2 Cor 12:20
    68%

    20For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don't desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;

  • Acts 14:2
    68%

    2But the disbelieving Jews stirred up and embittered the souls of the Gentiles against the brothers.

  • Gal 1:7
    68%

    7and there isn't another "good news." Only there are some who trouble you, and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.

  • 2 Cor 11:2
    68%

    2For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married 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 to you with many tears, not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.

  • 1 Cor 4:6
    68%

    6Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

  • 2 Cor 8:13
    68%

    13For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,

  • 2 Cor 8:4
    68%

    4begging us with much entreaty to receive this grace and the fellowship in the service to the saints.

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

    15I 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 deception.

    17Did I take advantage of you by anyone of them whom I have sent to you?

  • Gal 5:26
    68%

    26Let's not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.

  • Phlm 1:13-14
    2 verses
    68%

    13whom I desired to keep with me, that on your behalf he might serve me in my chains for the Good News.

    14But I was willing to do nothing without your consent, that your goodness would not be as of necessity, but of free will.

  • 2 Cor 9:5
    68%

    5I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brothers that they would go before to you, and arrange ahead of time the generous gift that you promised before, that the same might be ready as a matter of generosity, and not of greediness.

  • Jas 2:4
    68%

    4haven't you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

  • Rom 11:28
    68%

    28Concerning the Good News, they are enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sake.