the Week of Proper 21 / Ordinary 26
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Galatians 4:11
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I fear for you, that perhaps I have labored over you in vain.
I fear for you, that perhaps I have labored over you for nothing.
I feel sorry for you. Maybe all my hard work was for nothing.
I am in fear of you, that I may have been working for you to no purpose.
I am afraid of you, lest indeed I have laboured in vain as to you.
I am fearful for you, that perhaps my labor for you has been wasted.
I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.
Brethren, I beseech you, be ye as I am; for I also am as ye were: ye have not injured me at all.
I am alarmed about you, and am afraid that I have perhaps bestowed labour upon you to no purpose.
I am afraide of you, lest I haue bestowed vpon you labour in vaine.
I fear for you, lest somehow I have labored among you in vain.
I am in feare of you, lest I haue bestowed laboure on you in vayne.
you make me apprehensive, that the labour I have bestowed upon you will be all in vain.
I fear for you, that perhaps I have labored [to the point of exhaustion] over you in vain.
I am afraid of you, lest by any means I have bestowed labor upon you in vain.
I am in feare of you lest I have bestowed on you laboure in vayne.
I am afraid of you, lest by any means I have bestowed labor on you in vain.
I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labor in vain.
I am afraid of you, lest in vain I did labour toward you.
I am afraid for you, that my work for you has been wasted.
I fear for you that my work for you may have been in vain.
I fear for you, that my efforts for you may have been in vain.
I am afraid I have wasted my time working with you.
I fear for you that my work among you has been wasted!
I am afraid I may have labored over you in vain.
I am in feare of you, lest I haue bestowed on you labour in vaine.
I am afraid that perhaps I have labored among you in vain.
I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.
I am afraid for you, lest somehow my work for you has been wasted!Galatians 2:2; 1 Thessalonians 3:5;">[xr]
I am afraid, lest vain in I have laboured among you.
I am afraid, lest I have labored among you in vain.
I am afraid for you, lest I have labored for you in vain.
I fear for you. Perhaps all my hard work with you was for nothing.
I am afraid my work with you was wasted.
I am afraid of you, lest by any means I have bestowed labour upon you in vain.
I am afraid that my work for you may have been wasted.
I am afraid of you - lest by any means, in vain, I should have toiled for you!
I am afraid of you, lest perhaps I have laboured in vain among you.
I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
I am afraid for you, lest perhaps I have labored for you in vain!
I am in feare of you, lest I haue bestowed on you labour in vayne.
I fear for you, that perhaps I have labored over you in vain.
I am worried about you! Can it be that all my work for you has been for nothing?
But Y drede you, lest without cause Y haue trauelid among you.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
am: Galatians 4:20, 2 Corinthians 11:2, 2 Corinthians 11:3, 2 Corinthians 12:20, 2 Corinthians 12:21
lest: Galatians 2:2, Galatians 5:2-4, Isaiah 49:4, Acts 16:6, 1 Corinthians 15:58, Philippians 2:16, 1 Thessalonians 3:5, 2 John 1:8
Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:20 - your strength Psalms 127:1 - they labour 2 Corinthians 6:1 - beseech 2 Corinthians 7:5 - fears Galatians 5:10 - confidence Colossians 1:23 - ye continue 1 Thessalonians 2:1 - in vain 1 Thessalonians 5:12 - labour
Cross-References
The LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all cattle, and above all wild animals; upon your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life.
Behold, thou hast driven me this day away from the ground; and from thy face I shall be hidden; and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will slay me."
Then the LORD said to him, "Not so! If any one slays Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold." And the LORD put a mark on Cain, lest any who came upon him should kill him.
Then Cain went away from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
And Lamech took two wives; the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of those who dwell in tents and have cattle.
His brother's name was Jubal; he was the father of all those who play the lyre and pipe.
To Seth also a son was born, and he called his name Enosh. At that time men began to call upon the name of the LORD.
"O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry find no resting place.
For behold, the LORD is coming forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity, and the earth will disclose the blood shed upon her, and will no more cover her slain.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
I am afraid of you,.... Which shows the danger he apprehended they were in, by taking such large steps from Christianity to Judaism, and expresses the godly jealousy of the apostle over them; intimates he had some hope of them, and in the whole declares his great love and affection for them; for love is a thing full of care and fear:
lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain; in preaching the Gospel among them with so much diligence and constancy, though so many afflictions and pressures lay upon him. Faithful ministers of the word are laborious ones; and such an one was the apostle; and who indeed laboured more abundantly than the rest in all places wherever he came; and such will be concerned, as he was, lest their labours should be in vain, not to themselves, but to the souls of others, whose everlasting good and welfare they are seeking. But how is it that the apostle should fear that his labour in preaching the Gospel would be in vain, and become of no effect through their observance of days, months, times, and years? because that hereby the pure spiritual and evangelic worship of God was corrupted, they bringing into it that which God had removed, and so became guilty of will worship; their Christian liberty was infringed, and they brought into bondage, a deliverance from which the Gospel proclaims; the doctrine of free grace in pardon, justification, and salvation, was made void, they observing these things in order to procure them thereby; and it was virtually and tacitly saying, that Christ was not come in the flesh, which is the main article of the Gospel; for since these things had respect to him, and were to continue no longer than till his coming, to keep on the observation of them, was declaring that he was not come; which is in effect to set aside the whole Gospel, and the ministration of it; so that the apostle might justly fear, that by such a proceeding all his labour, and the pains he had took to preach the Gospel, and salvation by Christ unto them, would be in vain.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
I am afraid of you ... - I have fears respecting you. His fears were that they had no genuine Christian principle. They had been so easily perverted and turned back to the servitude of ceremonies and rites, that he was apprehensive that there could be no real Christian principle in the case. What pastor has not often had such fears of his people, when he sees them turn to the weak and beggarly elements of the world, or when, after having “run well,” he sees them become the slaves of fashion, or of some habit inconsistent with the simplicity of the gospel?
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 11. I am afraid of you — I begin now to be seriously alarmed for you, and think you are so thoroughly perverted from the Gospel of Christ, that all my pains and labour in your conversion have been thrown away.
