Galatians 4:11

I am alarmed about you for fear lest I may have bestowed labor on you to no purpose.

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.

In Context

10You are scrupulous, are you, in observing "days" and "months" and "seasons" and "years"?

12Brothers, I beseech you, become as I am, because I also have become as you are. You never did me any wrong;

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Cross References

Acts 16:6Then they went through Phrygia and Galatia, the Holy Spirit having forbidden them to proclaim the message in Asia.

2 Corinthians 11:2I have a divine jealousy on your behalf; for I betrothed you to one only husband, even to Christ, that I might present you to him, a chaste virgin.

Galatians 2:2(I went up at that time in obedience to a revelation). And I laid before them the gospel which I am wont to preach among the Gentiles. I did this privately before those in authority, lest by any means I should be running, or should already have run, in vain.

Galatians 5:2Listen to me! I, Paul, declare to you that if you are to continue to follow the rite of circumcision, Christ will be no profit to you.

1 Thessalonians 3:5So, when I could no longer endure it, I sent to find out about your faith, fearing that the tempter had tempted you and that my labor had been 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 →

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