Galatians 4:11
I fear for you, lest I may have bestowed upon you labor in vain.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
In Context
10Do ye observe days, and months, and times, and years?
12Brethren, I beseech you, become as I am, for I also have become as ye are; ye injured me in nothing.
Cross References
Acts 16:6And having gone through Phrygia and the Galatian country, on 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 espoused you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ;
Galatians 2:2And I went up by revelation, and communicated to them that gospel which I preach among the gentiles; but privately to those who were 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 are circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing;
1 Thessalonians 3:5For this cause, when I too could no longer forbear, I sent in order to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter might have tempted you, and our labor should prove 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 →