Bible verse
Those people are zealous for you, but not in a good way. Instead, they want to isolate you from us, so that you may be zealous for them.
Galatians 4:17 · BSB
The verses around it, from Galatians 4.
13 You know that it was because of an illness that I first preached the gospel to you.
14 And although my illness was a trial to you, you did not despise or reject me. Instead, you welcomed me as if I were an angel of God, as if I were Christ Jesus Himself.
15 What then has become of your blessing? For I can testify that, if it were possible, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me.
16 Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?
17 Those people are zealous for you, but not in a good way. Instead, they want to isolate you from us, so that you may be zealous for them.
18 Nevertheless, it is good to be zealous if it serves a noble purpose—at any time, and not only when I am with you.
19 My children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,
20 how I wish I could be with you now and change my tone, because I am perplexed about you.
21 Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand what the law says?
KJV
They zealously affect you, [but] not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
ASV
They zealously seek you in no good way; nay, they desire to shut you out, that ye may seek them.
ERV
They zealously seek you in no good way; nay, they desire to shut you out, that ye may seek them.
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