Galatians 4:17

They zealously seek you in no good way: nay, they desire to shut you out, that ye may seek them.

This was spoken with reference to the Judaizers, whose purpose was to control and exploit the Galatians by using them to support Jewish religious enterprises. "They seek you in no good way" is a figure of speech, called litotes, which is "the affirmation of a truth by denying its opposite,"[23] the meaning being that the Judaizers were hypocritical, and that their motives in cultivating the Galatians were impure.