Catholic Public Domain Version
"I am afraid for you, lest perhaps I may have labored in vain among you. "
— Galatians 4:11, Catholic Public Domain Version
“I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.”
“I am afraid of you, lest by any means I have bestowed labor upon you in vain. ”
“I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.”
“I fear for you that my work for you may have been in vain.”
“I am afraid of you, lest perhaps I have laboured in vain among you.”
“I am in fear of you, that I may have been working for you to no purpose.”
“I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.”
But then, certainly, while ignorant of God, you served those who, by nature, are not gods.
But now, since you have known God, or rather, since you have been known by God: how can you turn away again, to weak and destitute influences, which you desire to serve anew?
You serve the days, and months, and times, and years.
I am afraid for you, lest perhaps I may have labored in vain among you.
Brothers, I beg you. Be as I am. For I, too, am like you. You have not injured me at all.
But you know that, in the weakness of the flesh, I have preached the Gospel to you for a long time, and that your trials are in my flesh.
You did not despise or reject me. But instead, you accepted me like an Angel of God, even like Christ Jesus.