Galatians 4:11
I am in feare of you, lest I haue bestowed on you labour in vaine.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 moneths, and times and yeeres.
12Be ye as I (for I am euen as you) brethren, I beseech you: ye haue not hurt me at all.
Cross References
Acts 16:6Nowe when they had gone throughout Phrygia, and the region of Galatia, they were forbidden of the holy Ghost to preache the worde in Asia.
2 Corinthians 11:2For I am ielous ouer you, with godly ielousie: for I haue prepared you for one husband, to present you as a pure virgine to Christ:
Galatians 2:2And I went vp by reuelation, and declared vnto them that Gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but particularly to them that were the chiefe, least by any meanes I should runne, or had runne in vaine:
Galatians 5:2Beholde, I Paul say vnto you, that if yee be circumcised, Christ shall profite you nothing.
1 Thessalonians 3:5Euen for this cause, when I could no longer forbeare, I sent him that I might knowe of your faith, lest the tempter had tempted you in any sort, and that our labour had bene in vaine.
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 →