American Standard Version
"But it is good to be zealously sought in a good matter at all times, and not only when I am present with you. "
— Galatians 4:18, American Standard Version
“But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.”
“But it is always good to be zealous in a good cause, and not only when I am present with you.”
“However, it is good to be sought eagerly for a good purpose at all times, and not only when I am present with you.”
“But be zealous for that which is good in a good thing always: and not only when I am present with you.”
“But it is good to have an interest in a good cause at all times, and not only when I am present with you.”
“But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.”
Where then is that gratulation of yourselves? for I bear you witness, that, if possible, ye would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.
So then am I become your enemy, by telling you the truth?
They zealously seek you in no good way; nay, they desire to shut you out, that ye may seek them.
But it is good to be zealously sought in a good matter at all times, and not only when I am present with you.
My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you—
but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone; for I am perplexed about you.
Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?