Galatians 4:11

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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, {G3779} 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 {G3825} 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
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12I beseech you, brethren, become as I [am], for I also [am become] as ye [are]. Ye did me no wrong:
13but ye know that because of an infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you the first time:
Gal 4:10
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10Ye observe days, and months, and seasons, and years.
Gal 4:19-20
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19My little children, of whom I am again in travail until {G3739} Christ be formed in you—
20but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone; for I am perplexed about you.
1 Cor 2:3
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3And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
2 Cor 10:9
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9that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by my letters.
2 Cor 11:1-3
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1Would that ye could bear with me in a little foolishness: but indeed ye do bear with me.
2For 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.
3But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, {G3779} your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity and the purity that is toward Christ.
Gal 3:4
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4Did ye suffer so many things in vain? if it be indeed in vain.
1 Thess 3:5
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5For 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.
2 Cor 12:20
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20For 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;
Phil 2:16
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16holding 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.
1 Cor 4:14
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14I write not these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
2 Cor 9:3-4
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3But 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:
4lest 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 {G5287} confidence.
2 Cor 10:2
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2yea, 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.
Acts 20:31
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31Wherefore watch ye, remembering that by the space of three years I ceased not to admonish every one night and day with tears.
2 Cor 11:5
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5For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
2 Cor 11:7
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7Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God for nought?
2 Cor 7:15-16
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15And his affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembereth the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.
16I rejoice {G3754} that in everything I am of good courage concerning you.
Phlm 1:8
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8Wherefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to enjoin thee that which is befitting,
1 Cor 15:11
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11Whether then [it be] I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.
Gal 4:15
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15Where 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.
1 Thess 2:9
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9For ye remember, brethren, our labor and travail: {G1063} working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
Phil 2:12
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12So 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;
2 Cor 12:15-17
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15And I will most gladly spend and be spent for {G5590} your souls. If {G2532} I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?
16But be it so, I did not myself burden you; but, being crafty, I caught you with guile.
17Did I take advantage of you by any one of them whom I have sent unto you?
2 Cor 12:11
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11I am become foolish: {G2744} ye compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles, though {G2532} I am nothing.
Gal 5:10-11
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10I 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.
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2 Cor 2:3
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3And I wrote this very thing, {G5213} 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.
2 Cor 11:16
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16I say again, let no man think me {G1511} foolish; but if [ye do], yet as foolish receive me, that {G2504} I also may glory a little.
Rom 1:11
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Col 2:4
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4{G1161} This I say, that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.
1 Cor 4:16
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16I beseech you therefore, be ye imitators of me.
Heb 4:1
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1Let 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 Thess 2:1
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1For yourselves, brethren, know our entering in unto you, that it hath not been found vain:
Col 1:29
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29whereunto I labor also, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
2 Cor 11:21
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21I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet {G1722} whereinsoever {G302} any is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.
Gal 2:2
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2And 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.
Col 2:1
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1For I would have you know how greatly I {G2192} strive for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;
1 Cor 1:15
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15lest {G3361} any man should say that ye were baptized into my name.
1 Cor 9:1
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1Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus {G5547} our Lord? Are not ye my work in the Lord?
1 Cor 11:1
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1Be ye imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.
Rom 15:18
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18For 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,
1 Cor 16:10
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10Now if Timothy come, see that he be with you without fear; for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also do: