Galatians 4:17

1 Corinthians 11:2; 1 Corinthians 4:18; 1 Corinthians 4:8; 2 Corinthians 11:13-15; 2 Corinthians 11:3; 2 Peter 2:18; 2 Peter 2:3; Galatians 6:12; Galatians 6:13; Matthew 23:15; Philippians 2:21; Romans 10:2; Romans 16:18

Related Commentaries of Galatians 4:17

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They zealously affect you - See 1 Corinthians 12:31 (Greek); 1 Corinthians 14:39 . The word used here ( Ζηλόω Zēloō), means to be “zealo...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

They zealously affect you, (q) [but] not well; yea, they would exclude you, (r) that ye might affect them. (q) For they are jealous over you for the...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

An affectionate paragraph, reminding the Galatians how he had conformed in every legitimate way ( cf. 1 Corinthians 9:19 ff.) to their customs, an...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

zealously affect . Greek. zelov , to be zealous, either for good or for bad. would . wish to. App-102., exclude . Greek. ekkleiv , See Romans...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

17. They are jealous of you. He comes at length to the false apostles, and does more by silence to make them odious, than if he had given th...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them. They zealously affect you, but not well - It is di...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

They would exclude you.— Some copies and several expositors read us, which certainly appears more natural and easy; and, is there is no doubt but...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them. They - your flatterers: in contrast to Paul,...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Bondage of the Law. Freedom in Christ 1-7. Under the Law we were in bondage; under the Gospel we have received the freedom of sons. Paraphra...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

RV 'They zealously seek you in no good way; nay, they desire to shut you out that ye may seek them.' They ] the Jewish extremists. Not well ] i....
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

They zealously affect you. — “Zealously affect” is a single word in the Greek, and means “to show zeal towards,” “to court,” “to curry favour with,...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(17-20) All this eagerness to court your favour springs from an interested motive: they wish to make a sect of you, in which they shall be masters an...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 18 PAUL'S ENTREATY. Galatians 4:12-20 THE reproof of the last paragraph ended in a sigh. To see Christ's freemen relapsing into bondag...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Truthful and Devoted Dealing Galatians 4:12-20 How great a loss is it when we allow ourselves to be diverted from the simplicity of faith to tr...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

He now declared the process of freedom. "God sent forth His Son... under the law." Thus the law He kept was justified, and He lived thereby. But more...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(7) Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. (8) В¶ Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

They zealously affect you ,.... Or "are jealous of you"; meaning the false apostles, whose names, in contempt, he mentions not, being unworthy to be...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them. Ver. 17. They zealously affect you ] Depereun...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

They zealously affect you The Judaizing teachers who are come among you express an extraordinary regard for you; but not well Their zeal is not a...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

HOW CHILDREN ARE ADOPTED AS SONS (vs.1-7) The first few verses of chapter 4 give us the distinctive Christian position in more detail. This posit...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Affectionate Remonstrance. A. D. 56. 17 Th...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

They; the false teachers, that have perverted you as to the faith of the gospel. Zealously affect you; pretend a great warmth of affection for yo...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Paul Now Reveals His Concern and Longing for Them ( Galatians 4:12-20 ). Paul now pleads with them from the heart. He cannot bear to think what th...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘They seek you zealously, but not in a good way. No, they desire to shut you out that you may look to them. But it is good to be zealously sought in...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Galatians 4:12 . Be as I am, for I am as ye are. —Paul had become as a Gentile, though he was once a passionate J...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Galatians 4:1-5 . Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; but is under tuto...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Galatians 4:12 . Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all. He had told them the gospel, and other t...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Galatians 4:1 . The heir, as long as he is a child, and a minor, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all. He is under guard...
The Biblical Illustrator

They zealously affect you, but not well. False zeal Paul suggests-- I. That things which are good in their kind may be done for wrong ends....
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Galatians 4:1 Now I say (λέγω δέ). A form of expression usual with the apostle when introducing a new statement designed ei...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A personal appeal for the truth against the false teachers:
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you that ye might affect them.
Wells of Living Water Commentary

Turning unto Law-Works Galatians 4:1-22 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. It is passing strange that, after we have come to know salvation by grace, we co...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

They — The judaizing teachers who are come among you. Zealously affect you — Express an extraordinary regard for you. But not well — Their zeal is...

¹⁷ They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you,d that ye might affect them.

Related Commentaries of Galatians 4:17

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Galatians 4:17