Galatians 4:11
I am afraid of you—lest by any means, in vain, I should have toiled for you!
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
In Context
10Days, ye do narrowly observer, and months, and seasons, and years:—
Cross References
Acts 16:6And they passed through the Phrygian and Galatian country, being forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia;
2 Corinthians 11:2For I am jealous over you with a jealousy, of God; for I myself betrothed you unto one husband, to present, a chaste virgin, unto the Christ,—
Galatians 2:2And I went up by revelation, and laid before them the glad-message which I proclaim among the nations; privately, however, to them of repute,—lest, by any means, in vain, I should be running, or had run.
Galatians 5:2See! I, Paul, say unto you—if ye be getting circumcised, Christ will profit you, nothing.
1 Thessalonians 3:5For this cause, I also, no longer concealing my anxiety, sent, that I might get to know your faith, lest by any means he that tempteth, should have tempted you, and, in vain, should have been our toil.
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 →