But I said, “I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely my right is with the Lord, and my recompense with my God.”
Galatians 4:11 - Revised Standard Version I am afraid I have labored over you in vain. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I am alarmed [about you], lest I have labored among and over you to no purpose and in vain. American Standard Version (1901) I am afraid of you, lest by any means I have bestowed labor upon you in vain. Common English Bible I’m afraid for you! Perhaps my hard work for you has been for nothing. Catholic Public Domain Version I am afraid for you, lest perhaps I may have labored in vain among you. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version I am afraid of you, lest perhaps I have laboured in vain among you. |
But I said, “I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely my right is with the Lord, and my recompense with my God.”
And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
I went up by revelation; and I laid before them (but privately before those who were of repute) the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, lest somehow I should be running or had run in vain.
Brethren, I beseech you, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong;
I could wish to be present with you now and to change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.
holding fast the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.
For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent that I might know your faith, for fear that somehow the tempter had tempted you and that our labor would be in vain.
Look to yourselves, that you may not lose what you have worked for, but may win a full reward.