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

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 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 no longer stand it, I also sent him to find out about your faith, fearing that the tempter had tempted you and that our labor might be for nothing.

I went up according to a revelation and presented to them the gospel I preach among the Gentiles— but privately to those recognized as leaders— so that I might not be running, or have run the race, in vain.

Take note! I, Paul, tell you that if you get yourselves circumcised, Christ will not benefit you at all.Again I testify to every man who gets himself circumcised that he is obligated to keep the entire law.You who are trying to be justified by the law are alienated from Christ; you have fallen from grace.

For I fear that perhaps when I come I will not find you to be what I want, and I may not be found by you to be what you want; there may be quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.I fear that when I come my God will again humiliate me in your presence, and I will grieve for many who sinned before and have not repented of the moral impurity, sexual immorality, and promiscuity they practiced.

I would like to be with you right now and change my tone of voice, because I don’t know what to do about you.

Therefore, my dear brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the Lord’s work, knowing that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy, because I have promised you in marriage to one husband— to present a pure virgin to Christ.But I fear that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your minds may be seduced from a complete and pure devotion to Christ.

Hold firmly to the message of life. Then I can boast in the day of Christ that I didn’t run or labor for nothing.

They went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia and were prevented by the Holy Spirit from speaking the message in Asia.

But I myself said: I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and futility; yet my vindication is with the Lord, and my reward is with my God.