Galatians 4:11
You make me fear that the labour which I have spent on you may have been wasted.
Twentieth Century 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 in keeping Days and Months and Seasons and Years!
12I entreat you, Brothers, to become like me, as I became like you. You have never done me any wrong.
Cross References
Acts 16:6They next went through the Phrygian district of Galatia, but were restrained by the Holy Spirit from delivering the Message in Roman Asia.
2 Corinthians 11:2I am jealous over you with the jealousy of God. For I betrothed you to one husband, that I might present you to the Christ a pure bride.
Galatians 2:2It was in obedience to a revelation that I went; and I laid before the Apostles the Good News that I am proclaiming among the Gentiles. I did this privately before those who are thought highly of, for fear that I might possibly be taking, or might have already taken, a course which would prove useless.
Galatians 5:2Understand that I, Paul, myself tell you that if you allow yourselves to be circumcised, Christ will avail you nothing.
1 Thessalonians 3:5Therefore, since I could no longer endure the uncertainty, I sent to make inquiries about your faith, fearing that the Tempter had tempted you, and that our toil might prove to have 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 →