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

我为你们害怕，惟恐我在你们身上是枉费了工夫。

我为你们担心，惟恐我在你们身上是枉费工夫了。

我为你们担心，惟恐我在你们身上是枉费工夫了。

我真担心我在你们身上的一番心血都枉费了！

我为你们担心，恐怕我在你们身上的劳苦是白费了。

我替你们担心，恐怕我为你们的劳苦毫无意义了。

我為你們害怕，惟恐我在你們身上是枉費了工夫。

我為你們擔心，惟恐我在你們身上是枉費工夫了。

我為你們擔心，惟恐我在你們身上是枉費工夫了。

我真擔心我在你們身上的一番心血都枉費了！

我為你們擔心，恐怕我在你們身上的勞苦是白費了。

我替你們害怕，恐怕我在你們身上所勞苦的是枉費了。

我替你們擔心，恐怕我為你們的勞苦毫無意義了。

我為爾懼、恐我為爾徒勞矣、○

我恐為爾徒勞矣、

我為爾懼、恐我為爾徒勞矣、○

我實為爾寒心深恐我於爾中所費之心神、皆屬徒勞耳。

I fear for you, that somehow I have wasted my efforts on you.

I am afraid for you. I am afraid that somehow I have wasted my efforts on you.

I am afraid I may have labored over you in vain.

I fear for you. Perhaps all my hard work with you was for nothing.

I am fearful for you, that perhaps my labor for you has been wasted.

I fear for you, that perhaps I have labored over you in vain.

I am afraid for you, lest I have labored for you in vain.

I am afraid of you, lest by any means I have bestowed labor upon you in vain.

I am fearful for you, that perhaps my labor for you has been wasted.

I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.

I fear for you that my work for you may have been in vain.

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.

I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News 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.

Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision that he is a debtor to do the whole law.You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

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, or riots,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, sexual immorality, and lustfulness which they committed.

but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.

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.

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.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.

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.

When they had gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.

But I said,“ I have labored in vain. I have spent my strength in vain for nothing; yet surely the justice due to me is with Yahweh, and my reward with my God.”