Galatians 4:11
I am afraid for you, lest haply I have bestowed on you labour in vain.
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
In The King James Version
I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
In Context
10Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.
Cross References
Acts 16:6So passing through Phrygia and the region of Galatia, being forbidden by the Holy Ghost to speak the word in Asia,
2 Corinthians 11:2For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy; for I have espoused you to one husband, to present you a chaste virgin to Christ.
Galatians 2:2And I went up then by revelation, and laid before them that gospel which I preach among the Heathen, but in private conference with those who were of the first importance, that haply I might not run, nor had run in vain.
Galatians 5:2Behold, I Paul declare to you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ will be of no advantage to you.
1 Thessalonians 3:5For this cause also, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your fidelity, lest by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labour 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 →