Galatians 4:18
But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
KJV
καλὸν δὲ ζηλοῦσθαι ἐν καλῷ πάντοτε, καὶ μὴ μόνον ἐν τῷ παρεῖναί με πρὸς ὑμᾶς,
Greek NT
Bonum autem æmulamini in bono semper : et non tantum cum præsens sum apud vos.
Vulgate
But it is good to be zealously sought in a good matter at all times, and not only when I am present with you.
ASV
But be zealous for that which is good in a good thing always: and not only when I am present with you.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
ζηλόω
zeloo
verb · 12×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
καλός
kalos
adjective · 100×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
μόνον
monon
adverb · 66×
πάντοτε
pantote
adverb · 41×
πάρειμι
pareimi
verb · 24×
πρός
pros
preposition · 697×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
notable
SBLGNT: δὲ | WH/Treg/NIV: δὲ | RP: + τὸ
- δὲ — SBLGNT
- δὲ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + τὸ — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
1. Everywhere indeed a reverential mind is requisite, but especially when we say or hear anything of God: Since neither can tongue speak nor thought hear anything suitable to our God. And why speak I of tongue or thought? For not even the understanding which far excels these, will be able to comprehend anything accurately, when we desire to utter anything concerning God. For if…
As there is no true religion where there is nothing else but affection, so there is no true religion where there is no religious affection. He who has no religious affection is in a state of spiritual death, and is wholly destitute of the powerful, quickening, saving influences of the Spirit of God upon his heart.
Cross-references
- 1Cor 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.
- Gal 4:13 — Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
- Lam 3:26 — It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
- Phil 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 striv
- Phil 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.
- Ps 119:139 — My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.
- Rev 3:19 — As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
- Rev 3:19 — As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
- Titus 2:14 — Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.