Galatians 4:11 “I fear for you, that my efforts for you may have been in vain.”

Galatians 4:11

I fear for you, that my efforts for you may have been in vain.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.

American Standard Version

I am afraid of you, lest by any means I have bestowed labor upon you in vain.

Geneva Bible 1599

I am in feare of you, lest I haue bestowed on you labour in vaine.

Darby Translation

I am afraid of you, lest indeed I have laboured in vain as to you.

Young's Literal Translation

I am afraid of you, lest in vain I did labour toward you.

Bible in Basic English

I am in fear of you, that I may have been working for you to no purpose.

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Cross references

“am”

Galatians 4:20 2 Corinthians 11:2 2 Corinthians 11:3 2 Corinthians 12:20 2 Corinthians 12:21

Galatians 4:20 · BSB

how I wish I could be with you now and change my tone, because I am perplexed about you.

2 Corinthians 11:2 · BSB

I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

2 Corinthians 11:3 · BSB

I am afraid, however, that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may be led astray from your simple and pure devotion to Christ.

2 Corinthians 12:20 · BSB

For I am afraid that when I come, I may not find you as I wish, and you may not find me as you wish. I fear that there may be quarreling, jealousy, rage, rivalry, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.

2 Corinthians 12:21 · BSB

I am afraid that when I come again, my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of their acts of impurity, sexual immorality, and debauchery.

“lest”

1 Thessalonians 3:5 Galatians 2:2 Philippians 2:16 2 John 1:8 Galatians 5:2–4 Isaiah 49:4

1 Thessalonians 3:5 · BSB

For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith, for fear that the tempter had somehow tempted you and that our labor might have been in vain.

Galatians 2:2 · BSB

I went in response to a revelation and set before them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles. But I spoke privately to those recognized as leaders, for fear that I was running or had already run in vain.

Philippians 2:16 · BSB

as you hold forth the word of life, in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain.

2 John 1:8 · BSB

Watch yourselves, so that you do not lose what we have worked for, but that you may be fully rewarded.

Galatians 5:2–4 · BSB

Take notice: I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all.

Isaiah 49:4 · BSB

But I said, “I have labored in vain, I have spent My strength in futility and vanity; yet My vindication is with the LORD, and My reward is with My God.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

10You are observing special days and months and seasons and years!

12I beg you, brothers, become like me, for I became like you. You have done me no wrong.

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