Galatians 4:11
I am afraid of you, lest by any means I have bestowed labor upon you in vain.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
In Context
10Do ye carefully observe days, and months, and seasons, and years?
12Become as I am, for I also became as ye are, brethren, I beseech you. Ye injured me in nothing.
Cross References
Acts 16:6And having gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, and being forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia,
2 Corinthians 11:2For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy; for I espoused you to one husband, that I may present a chaste virgin to Christ.
Galatians 2:2And I went up by revelation, and communicated to them the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles; but privately, to those of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run in vain.
Galatians 5:2Behold, I, Paul, say to you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
1 Thessalonians 3:5For this cause, when I too could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter 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 →