But I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and vanity: yet surely my judgement is with the LORD, and my recompence with my God.
Galatians 4:11 - Revised Version 1885 I am afraid of you, lest by any means I have bestowed labour upon 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 laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and vanity: yet surely my judgement is with the LORD, and my recompence with my God.
And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden of the Holy Ghost to speak the word in Asia;
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not vain in the Lord.
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.
I beseech you, brethren, be as I am, for I am as ye are. Ye did me no wrong:
yea, I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I am perplexed about you.
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 labour in vain.
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 labour should be in vain.
Look to yourselves, that ye lose not the things which we have wrought, but that ye receive a full reward.