Galatians 4:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.

Galatians 4:18 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Philippians 2:12
Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
Revelation 3:19
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Philippians 1:27
Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
Psalms 119:139
My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.
1 Corinthians 15:58
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 17-18)

The apostle is still carrying on the same design as in the Gal. 4:12-16, 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 here gives them the character of those false teachers who made it their business to…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 18)

18. good to be zealously affected--rather, to correspond to “zealously court” in Ga 4:18, “to be zealously courted.” I do not find fault with them for zealously courting you, nor with you for being zealously courted: provided it be “in a good cause” (translate so), “it is a good thing” (1Co 9:20-23). My reason for saying the “not well” (Ga 4:17; the Greek is the same as that for “good,” and “in a…