Galatians 4:11
fear for you, lest I have bestowed labor upon you in vain.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
In Context
10You observe days and months and times and years.
12Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; because I was as you are. You have injured me in nothing.
Cross References
Acts 16:6When they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, being forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia,
2 Corinthians 11:2for I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy: for I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you a chaste virgin to Christ.
Galatians 2:2And I went up because of a revelation, and communicated to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to those who are of reputation, lest, by any means, I should run or had run in vain.
Galatians 5:2Behold, I Paul say to you, that if you be circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing.
1 Thessalonians 3:5For this reason, when I could no longer contain myself, I sent to know your faith, lest by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor should be 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 →