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Galatians 4:17 KJV
Galatians · chapter 4 · verse 17
They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.Galatians 4:17 · King James Version
Galatians 4:17 in context
15Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.
16Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
17They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
18But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
19My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- excludeekkleiōto shut out, to turn out of doors, to prevent the approach of oneG1576 →
- affectzēloōto burn with zeal, to be heated or to boil with envy, hatred, anger, in a good sense, to…G2206 →
- wellkalōsbeautifully, finely, excellently, well, rightly, so that there shall be no room for…G2573 →
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The apostle is still carrying on the same design as in the foregoing verse, which was, to convince the Galatians of their sin and folly in departing from the truth of the gospel: having just before been expostulating with them about the change of their behaviour towards him who endeavoured to establish them in it, he…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 17-18