Galatians 4:11
I am afraid for you, lest perhaps I may have labored in vain among you.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
In Context
10You serve the days, and months, and times, and years.
12Brothers, I beg you. Be as I am. For I, too, am like you. You have not injured me at all.
Cross References
Acts 16:6Then, while crossing through Phrygia and the region of Galatia, they were prevented by the Holy Spirit from speaking the Word in Asia.
2 Corinthians 11:2For I am jealous toward you, with the jealousy of God. And I have espoused you to one husband, offering you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
Galatians 2:2And I went up according to revelation, and I debated with them about the Gospel that I am preaching among the Gentiles, but away from those who were pretending to be something, lest perhaps I might run, or have run, in vain.
Galatians 5:2Behold, I, Paul, say to you, that if you have been circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you.
1 Thessalonians 3:5For this reason also, I was not willing to wait any longer, and I sent to find out about your faith, lest perhaps he who tempts may have tempted you, and our labor might have been 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 →