Galatians 4:11

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Thess 3:5 : 5 For 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 labor should be in vain.
  • Gal 2:2 : 2 And 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.
  • Gal 4:20 : 20 but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone; for I am perplexed about you.
  • Gal 5:2-4 : 2 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that, if ye receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing. 3 Yea, I testify again to every man that receiveth circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. 4 Ye are severed from Christ, ye who would be justified by the law; ye are fallen away from grace.
  • Phil 2:16 : 16 holding forth the word of life; that I may have whereof to glory in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain neither labor in vain.
  • Isa 49:4 : 4 But I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and vanity; yet surely the justice [due] to me is with Jehovah, and my recompense with my God.
  • Acts 16:6 : 6 And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden of the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia;
  • 1 Cor 15:58 : 58 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not vain in the Lord.
  • 2 Cor 11:2-3 : 2 For 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. 3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity and the purity that is toward Christ.
  • 2 Cor 12:20-21 : 20 For I fear, lest by any means, when I come, I should find you not such as I would, and should myself be found of you such as ye would not; lest by any means [there should be] strife, jealousy, wraths, factions, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults; 21 lest again when I come my God should humble me before you, and I should mourn for many of them that have sinned heretofore, and repented not of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they committed.
  • 2 John 1:8 : 8 Look to yourselves, that ye lose not the things which we have wrought, but that ye receive a full reward.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gal 4:12-13
    2 verses
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    12 I beseech you, brethren, become as I [am], for I also [am become] as ye [are] . Ye did me no wrong:

    13 but ye know that because of an infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you the first time:

  • 10 Ye observe days, and months, and seasons, and years.

  • Gal 4:19-20
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    19 My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you--

    20 but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone; for I am perplexed about you.

  • 3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

  • 9 that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by my letters.

  • 2 Cor 11:1-3
    3 verses
    73%

    1 Would that ye could bear with me in a little foolishness: but indeed ye do bear with me.

    2 For 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.

    3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity and the purity that is toward Christ.

  • 4 Did ye suffer so many things in vain? if it be indeed in vain.

  • 5 For 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 labor should be in vain.

  • 20 For I fear, lest by any means, when I come, I should find you not such as I would, and should myself be found of you such as ye would not; lest by any means [there should be] strife, jealousy, wraths, factions, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults;

  • 16 holding forth the word of life; that I may have whereof to glory in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain neither labor in vain.

  • 14 I write not these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

  • 2 Cor 9:3-4
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    3 But I have sent the brethren, that our glorying on your behalf may not be made void in this respect; that, even as I said, ye may be prepared:

    4 lest by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be put to shame in this confidence.

  • 2 yea, I beseech you, that I may not when present show courage with the confidence wherewith I count to be bold against some, who count of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

  • 31 Wherefore watch ye, remembering that by the space of three years I ceased not to admonish every one night and day with tears.

  • 5 For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

  • 7 Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God for nought?

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    15 And his affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembereth the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.

    16 I rejoice that in everything I am of good courage concerning you.

  • 8 Wherefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to enjoin thee that which is befitting,

  • 11 Whether then [it be] I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.

  • 15 Where then is that gratulation of yourselves? for I bear you witness, that, if possible, ye would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.

  • 9 For ye remember, brethren, our labor and travail: working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

  • 12 So then, my beloved, even as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;

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    15 And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

    16 But be it so, I did not myself burden you; but, being crafty, I caught you with guile.

    17 Did I take advantage of you by any one of them whom I have sent unto you?

  • 11 I am become foolish: ye compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I am nothing.

  • Gal 5:10-11
    2 verses
    70%

    10 I have confidence to you-ward in the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.

    11 But I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? then hath the stumbling-block of the cross been done away.

  • 3 And I wrote this very thing, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is [the joy] of you all.

  • 16 I say again, let no man think me foolish; but if [ye do], yet as foolish receive me, that I also may glory a little.

  • 11 For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;

  • 4 This I say, that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

  • 16 I beseech you therefore, be ye imitators of me.

  • 1 Let us fear therefore, lest haply, a promise being left of entering into his rest, any one of you should seem to have come short of it.

  • 1 For yourselves, brethren, know our entering in unto you, that it hath not been found vain:

  • 29 whereunto I labor also, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

  • 21 I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet whereinsoever any is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.

  • 2 And 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.

  • 1 For I would have you know how greatly I strive for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

  • 15 lest any man should say that ye were baptized into my name.

  • 1 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not ye my work in the Lord?

  • 1 Be ye imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

  • 18 For I will not dare to speak of any things save those which Christ wrought through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

  • 10 Now if Timothy come, see that he be with you without fear; for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also do: