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Galatians 4:11

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.

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

12 Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.

13 Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
I fear for you, that my efforts for you may have been in vain.
KJV
I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
WEB
I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.
ASV
I am afraid of you, lest by any means I have bestowed labor upon you in vain.
DARBY
I am afraid of you, lest indeed I have laboured in vain as to you.
BLB
I fear for you⁺, lest somehow I have toiled for you⁺ in vain.
ÅB
jeg frykter for dere at jeg kanskje forgjeves har gjort meg strev med dere.
OTB
Jeg er redd for dere, at jeg kanskje har arbeidet forgjeves blant dere.
B1930
jeg frykter for eder at jeg kanskje forgjeves har gjort mig møie med eder.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • 1 Thessalonians 3:5

    For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.

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  • Philippians 2:16

    Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

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  • 2 John 1:8

    Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.

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  • Galatians 2:2

    And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.

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  • Galatians 4:20

    I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.

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  • 1 Corinthians 15:58

    Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

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  • Acts 16:6

    Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia,

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  • Galatians 5:2–4

    Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.

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