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They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them.
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Beware of Self-Serving Zeal
Commentators unanimously agree that the false teachers' intense interest in the Galatians was not genuine. Their zeal was a manipulative tactic, driven by a desire for their own reputation and power, not the spiritual well-being of the church. This serves as a timeless warning to discern the true motives behind any teaching.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
They zealously affect you. See 1 Corinthians 12:31 (Greek) and 1 Corinthians 14:39. The word used here, zhlow<…
They zealously seek you (ζηλουσιν υμας). Ζηλοω is an old and a good word from ζηλος (zeal, jealousy), but one can pay court with g…
19th Century
Anglican
They zealously affect you.—“Zealously affect” is a single word in the Greek, and means “to show zeal towards,” “to court,” “to curry favou…
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Baptist
They zealously affect you, but not well; yes, they would exclude you, that you might affect them.
They would, if they could, turn y…
Paul can appeal, not only to the former attitude of the Galatians or to the contrast between that and their actions in the present (vv.12–16), but …
16th Century
Protestant
They are jealous of you. He finally comes to the false apostles and does more by silence to make them detestable than if he had stated the…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
They zealously affect you Or "are jealous of you"; meaning the false apostles, whose names, in contempt, he mentions…
The apostle desires that they would be of one mind with him regarding the law of Moses, as well as united with him in love. In reproving others, we…
