Galatians 4:11
I am afraid of you, lest by any means I have bestowed labour upon you in vain.
Revised Version 1895
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 seasons, and years.
12I beseech you, brethren, be as I am, for I am as ye are. Ye did me no wrong:
Cross References
Acts 16:6And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden of the Holy Ghost to speak the word in Asia;
2 Corinthians 11:2For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy: for I espoused you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
Galatians 2:2And I went up by revelation; and I laid before them the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before them who were of repute, lest by any means I should be running, or had run, in vain.
Galatians 5:2Behold, I Paul say unto you, that, if ye receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.
1 Thessalonians 3:5For this cause I also, when I could no longer forbear, sent that I might know your faith, 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 →