Galatians 4:17
They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.In other versions
They zealously seek you in no good way; nay, they desire to shut you out, that ye may seek them.
ASV
Their interest in you is not good; but their desire is that you may be shut out, so that you may go after them.
BBE
They are not rightly zealous after you, but desire to shut you out [from us], that ye may be zealous after them.
DBY
They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them.
WEB
they are zealous for you -- `yet' not well, but they wish to shut us out, that for them ye may be zealous;
YLT
They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that all of you might affect them.
ENG
They zealously affect you, but not well; for, they would exclude you, that ye may affect them.
WBT
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.
BSB
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,