Galatians 4:11
I fear lest I have labored unto you in vain.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
In Context
10Do you keep days, and months, and times and years?
12Be ye as I am, because I am as you are, brethren, I am praying for you.
Cross References
Acts 16:6And they traveled through Phrygia and the Galatian country, being prohibited by the Holy Ghost from speaking the word in Asia.
2 Corinthians 11:2For I am jealous of you with the jealousy of God: for I espoused you to one husband, to present you a pure virgin to Christ;
Galatians 2:2but I went up according to revelation; and I presented to them the gospel which I am preaching among the Gentiles, but privately to the prominent ones, lest perhaps I am running, or did run, in vain.
Galatians 5:2Behold I Paul say unto you, that, if you may be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
1 Thessalonians 3:5Therefore I indeed, no longer containing, sent that I might know your faith, lest perhaps the tempter tempted you, and our labor may 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 →