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Paul suggests —

I. THAT THINGS WHICH ARE GOOD IN THEIR KIND MAY BE DONE FOR WRONG ENDS.

1. In preaching,

(1)  some do it for envy and strife;

(2)  some to gain personal or pecuniary ends.

2. In embracing the gospel, some do it, not for its own sake, but for

(1)  honour;

(2)  profit.

3. This must teach us not only to do good, but to do it well. For which end —

(1)  We must set before us the will of God as our main motive.

(2)  The outward action must be conformable to the inward motion.

II. THAT NATURE CAN COUNTERFEIT GRACE. Thus men feign —

1. The experiences and life of religion.

2. The activities of religion. How hard to detect the hypocrite, and yet how easy to become one.

III. THE ENVY AND AMBITION OF THE DECEIVERS. Paul must be excluded from the love of the Galatians that they alone may be loved. Thus Joshua (Numbers 11:29); John's disciples (John 3:30); our Lord's disciples (Luke 9:49).

IV. The divisions between pastors and people created by the false teachers.

(W. Perkins.)

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KJV: They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.

WEB: They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them.