Galatians 4:11
I am in feare of you, lest I haue bestowed on you labour in vayne.
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
In Context
10Ye obserue dayes, and monethes, and tymes, and yeres.
12Brethren, I besech you be as I [am] for I am as ye are. Ye haue not iniured me at all.
Cross References
Galatians 2:2I went vp also by reuelation, & I declared vnto them the Gospel which I preache among the gentiles: but priuately, with them which were the chiefe, lest by any meanes, I shoulde runne or had runne in vayne.
Galatians 5:2Beholde I Paul saye vnto you, that yf ye be, circumcised Christe shall profite you nothyng.
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 →