Galatians 4:17

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

they are zealous for you -- `yet' not well, but they wish to shut us out, that for them ye may be zealous;

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Referenced Verses

  • Rom 16:18 : 18 for such our Lord Jesus Christ do not serve, but their own belly; and through the good word and fair speech they deceive the hearts of the harmless,
  • 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 and in covetousness, with moulded words, of you they shall make merchandise, whose judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction doth not slumber.
  • Matt 23:15 : 15 `Wo to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye go round the sea and the dry land to make one proselyte, and whenever it may happen -- ye make him a son of gehenna twofold more than yourselves.
  • 2 Cor 11:13-15 : 13 for those such `are' false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ, 14 and no wonder -- for even the Adversary doth transform himself into a messenger of light; 15 no great thing, then, if also his ministrants do transform themselves as ministrants of righteousness -- whose end shall be according to their works.
  • Gal 6:12-13 : 12 as many as are willing to make a good appearance in the flesh, these constrain you to be circumcised -- only that for the cross of the Christ they may not be persecuted, 13 for neither do those circumcised themselves keep the law, but they wish you to be circumcised, that in your flesh they may glory.
  • Phil 2:21 : 21 for the whole seek their own things, not the things of the Christ Jesus,
  • Rom 10:2 : 2 for I bear them testimony that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge,
  • 1 Cor 4:8 : 8 Already ye are having been filled, already ye were rich, apart from us ye did reign, and I would also ye did reign, that we also with you may reign together,
  • 1 Cor 4:18 : 18 And as if I were not coming unto you certain were puffed up;
  • 1 Cor 11:2 : 2 And I praise you, brethren, that in all things ye remember me, and according as I did deliver to you, the deliverances ye keep,
  • 2 Cor 11:3 : 3 and I fear, lest, as the serpent did beguile Eve in his subtilty, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that `is' in the Christ;
  • 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 for overswellings of vanity speaking, they do entice in desires of the flesh -- lasciviousnesses, those who had truly escaped from those conducting themselves in error,

Similar Verses (AI)

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    18and `it is' good to be zealously regarded, in what is good, at all times, and not only in my being present with you;

  • Gal 4:15-16
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    15what then was your happiness? for I testify to you, that if possible, your eyes having plucked out, ye would have given to me;

    16so that your enemy have I become, being true to you?

  • Rom 10:2
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    2for I bear them testimony that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge,

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4in which they think it strange -- your not running with them to the same excess of dissoluteness, speaking evil,

  • Phil 1:15-17
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    15Certain, indeed, even through envy and contention, and certain also through good-will, do preach the Christ;

    16the one, indeed, of rivalry the Christ do proclaim, not purely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds,

    17and the other out of love, having known that for defence of the good news I am set:

  • 1 Thess 2:14-17
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    14for ye became imitators, brethren, of the assemblies of God that are in Judea in Christ Jesus, because such things ye suffered, even ye, from your own countrymen, as also they from the Jews,

    15who did both put to death the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and did persecute us, and God they are not pleasing, and to all men `are' contrary,

    16forbidding us to speak to the nations that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always, but the anger did come upon them -- to the end!

    17And we, brethren, having been taken from you for the space of an hour -- in presence, not in heart -- did hasten the more abundantly to see your face in much desire,

  • Gal 6:12-13
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    12as many as are willing to make a good appearance in the flesh, these constrain you to be circumcised -- only that for the cross of the Christ they may not be persecuted,

    13for neither do those circumcised themselves keep the law, but they wish you to be circumcised, that in your flesh they may glory.

  • Rom 16:17-18
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    17And I call upon you, brethren, to mark those who the divisions and the stumbling-blocks, contrary to the teaching that ye did learn, are causing, and turn ye away from them;

    18for such our Lord Jesus Christ do not serve, but their own belly; and through the good word and fair speech they deceive the hearts of the harmless,

  • Phil 2:20-21
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    20for I have no one like-minded, who sincerely for the things concerning you will care,

    21for the whole seek their own things, not the things of the Christ Jesus,

  • Gal 5:12
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    12O that even they would cut themselves off who are unsettling you!

  • Gal 2:4
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    4and `that' because of the false brethren brought in unawares, who did come in privily to spy out our liberty that we have in Christ Jesus, that us they might bring under bondage,

  • 1 Thess 2:8
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    8so being desirous of you, we are well-pleased to impart to you not only the good news of God, but also our own souls, because beloved ye have become to us,

  • 2 Cor 11:11-12
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    11wherefore? because I do not love you? God hath known!

    12and what I do, I also will do, that I may cut off the occasion of those wishing an occasion, that in that which they boast they may be found according as we also;

  • Gal 4:11-12
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    11I am afraid of you, lest in vain I did labour toward you.

    12Become as I `am' -- because I also `am' as ye brethren, I beseech you; to me ye did no hurt,

  • Phil 4:17
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    17not that I seek after the gift, but I seek after the fruit that is overflowing to your account;

  • 2 Cor 7:11
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    11for, lo, this same thing -- your being made sorry toward God -- how much diligence it doth work in you! but defence, but displeasure, but fear, but longing desire, but zeal, but revenge; in every thing ye did approve yourselves to be pure in the matter.

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    7Ye were running well; who did hinder you -- not to obey the truth?

  • Phil 4:10
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    10And I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at length ye flourished again in caring for me, for which also ye were caring, and lacked opportunity;

  • Col 2:4
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    4and this I say, that no one may beguile you in enticing words,

  • Gal 2:10
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    10only, of the poor that we should be mindful, which also I was diligent -- this very thing -- to do.

  • Phil 1:10
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    10for your proving the things that differ, that ye may be pure and offenceless -- to a day of Christ,

  • Phil 1:8
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    8For God is my witness, how I long for you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ,

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    20for I fear lest, having come, not such as I wish I may find you, and I -- I may be found by you such as ye do not wish, lest there be strifes, envyings, wraths, revelries, evil-speakings, whisperings, puffings up, insurrections,

  • Acts 14:2
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    2and the unbelieving Jews did stir up and made evil the souls of the nations against the brethren;

  • Gal 1:7
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    7that is not another, except there be certain who are troubling you, and wishing to pervert the good news of the Christ;

  • 2 Cor 11:2
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    2for I am zealous for you with zeal of God, for I did betroth you to one husband, a pure virgin, to present to Christ,

  • 2 Cor 2:4
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    4for out of much tribulation and pressure of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not that ye might be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly toward you.

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6And these things, brethren, I did transfer to myself and to Apollos because of you, that in us ye may learn not to think above that which hath been written, that ye may not be puffed up one for one against the other,

  • 2 Cor 8:13
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    13for not that for others release, and ye pressured, `do I speak,'

  • 2 Cor 8:4
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    4with much entreaty calling on us to receive the favour and the fellowship of the ministration to the saints,

  • 2 Cor 12:15-17
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    15and I most gladly will spend and be entirely spent for your souls, even if, more abundantly loving you, less I am loved.

    16And be it `so', I -- I did not burden you, but being crafty, with guile I did take you;

    17any one of those whom I have sent unto you -- by him did I take advantage of you?

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    26let us not become vain-glorious -- one another provoking, one another envying!

  • Phlm 1:13-14
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    13whom I did wish to retain to myself, that in thy behalf he might minister to me in the bonds of the good news,

    14and apart from thy mind I willed to do nothing, that as of necessity thy good deed may not be, but of willingness,

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    5Necessary, therefore, I thought `it' to exhort the brethren, that they may go before to you, and may make up before your formerly announced blessing, that this be ready, as a blessing, and not as covetousness.

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    4ye did not judge fully in yourselves, and did become ill-reasoning judges.

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    28As regards, indeed, the good tidings, `they are' enemies on your account; and as regards the choice -- beloved on account of the fathers;