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

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 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.

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

For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to learn about your faith, for fear that somehow the tempter had tempted you and our labor would be in vain.

I went up because of a revelation and set before them( though privately before those who seemed influential) the gospel that I proclaim among the Gentiles, in order to make sure I was not running or had not run in vain.

Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you.I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law.You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.

For I fear that perhaps when I come I may find you not as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish— that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, anger, hostility, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.I fear that when I come again my God may humble me before you, and I may have to mourn over many of those who sinned earlier and have not repented of the impurity, sexual immorality, and sensuality that they have practiced.

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

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

For I feel a divine jealousy for you, since I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.

holding fast to 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.

And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.

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.”