Galatians 4:11
I am afraid of you, lest somehow I have labored toward you in vain.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
In Context
10Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.
12I beseech you, brothers, become like me, because I also am like ye. Ye wronged me in nothing.
Cross References
Acts 16:6But having passed through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia,
2 Corinthians 11:2For I am jealous for you with a jealousy of God. For I betrothed you to one husband, a pure virgin to present to the Christ.
Galatians 2:2And I went up according to revelation, and I declared to them the good-news that I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to those who were of repute, lest somehow I might be running or ran in vain.
Galatians 5:2Behold, I Paul say to you, that if ye are circumcised, Christ will benefit you nothing.
1 Thessalonians 3:5Because of this, I too, no longer covering over it, sent in order to know your faith, lest somehow he who tempts was tempting you, and our labor became in vain.
Matthew Henry on Galatians 4:9-12
Affectionate Remonstrance. ( a. d. 56.) 8 Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods. 9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? 10 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. 11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain. In these verses the apostle puts them in mind of what they were before their conversion to the… Read the whole commentary →