Galatians 4:11
I am afraid of you, lest perhaps I have laboured in vain among you.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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.
12Be ye as I, because I also am as you: brethren, I beseech you: you have not injured me at all.
Cross References
Acts 16:6And when they had passed through Phrygia, and the country of Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia.
2 Corinthians 11:2For I am jealous of you with the jealousy of God. For I have espoused you to one husband that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
Galatians 2:2And I went up according to revelation; and communicated to them the gospel, which I preach among the Gentiles, but apart to them who seemed to be some thing: lest perhaps I should run, or had run in vain.
Galatians 5:2Behold, I Paul tell you, that if you be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
1 Thessalonians 3:5For this cause also, I, forbearing no longer, sent to know your faith: lest perhaps he that tempteth should have tempted you, and our labour should be made 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 →