Galatians 4:11

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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  • 1 Thess 3:5 : 5 For this cause I also, when I couldn't stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.
  • Gal 2:2 : 2 I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might 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, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing. 3 Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. 4 You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.
  • Phil 2:16 : 16 holding up the word of life; that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn't run in vain nor labor in vain.
  • Isa 49:4 : 4 But I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely the justice [due] to me is with Yahweh, and my recompense with my God.
  • Acts 16:6 : 6 When they had gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.
  • 1 Cor 15:58 : 58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord's work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
  • 2 Cor 11:2-3 : 2 For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ. 3 But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
  • 2 Cor 12:20-21 : 20 For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don't desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots; 21 that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness and sexual immorality and lustfulness which they committed.
  • 2 John 1:8 : 8 Watch yourselves, that we don't lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gal 4:12-13
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    12 I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong,

    13 but you know that because of weakness of the flesh I preached the Gospel to you the first time.

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

  • Gal 4:19-20
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    19 My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is 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 I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.

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

  • 2 Cor 11:1-3
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    1 I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.

    2 For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

    3 But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

  • 4 Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?

  • 5 For this cause I also, when I couldn't stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.

  • 20 For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don't desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;

  • 16 holding up the word of life; that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn't run in vain nor labor in vain.

  • 14 I don't write 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 brothers that our boasting on your behalf may not be in vain in this respect, that, just as I said, you may be prepared,

    4 so that I won't by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) should be disappointed in this confident boasting.

  • 2 Yes, I beg you that I may not, when present, show courage with the confidence with which I intend to be bold against some, who consider us to be walking according to the flesh.

  • 31 Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn't cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.

  • 5 For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.

  • 7 Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God's Gospel free of charge?

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    15 His affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him.

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

  • 8 Therefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to command you that which is appropriate,

  • 11 Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.

  • 15 What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.

  • 9 For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Gospel of God.

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

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    15 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 deception.

    17 Did I take advantage of you by anyone of them whom I have sent to you?

  • 11 I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

  • Gal 5:10-11
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    10 I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.

    11 But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling-block of the cross has been removed.

  • 3 And I wrote this very thing to you, so that, when I came, I wouldn't have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy would be shared by all of you.

  • 16 I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.

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

  • 4 Now this I say that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

  • 16 I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.

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

  • 1 For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn't in vain,

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

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

  • 2 I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.

  • 1 For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

  • 15 so that no one should say that I had baptized you into my own name.

  • 1 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven't I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren't you my work in the Lord?

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

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

  • 10 Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without fear, for he does the work of the Lord, as I also do.