"They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them."
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For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.
Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.
Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.
For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.
For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
Their interest in you is not good; but their desire is that you may be shut out, so that you may go after them.
They are not rightly zealous after you, but desire to shut you out [from us], that ye may be zealous after them.
They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
They zealously affect you, but not well; for, they would exclude you, that ye may affect them.
They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them.
they are zealous for you -- `yet' not well, but they wish to shut us out, that for them ye may be zealous;