I am afraid for you, lest I have labored for 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 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 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 no longer endure it, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor might be in vain.

And I went up by revelation, and communicated to them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to those who were of reputation, lest by any means I might run, or had run, in vain.

Indeed I, Paul, say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing.And I testify again to every man who becomes circumcised that he is a debtor to keep the whole law.You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace.

For I fear lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I wish, and that I shall be found by you such as you do not wish; lest there be contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, backbitings, whisperings, conceits, tumults;lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and I shall mourn for many who have sinned before and have not repented of the uncleanness, fornication, and lewdness which they have practiced.

I would like to be present with you now and to change my tone; for I have doubts about you.

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

For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy. For I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

holding fast the word of life, so that I may rejoice in the day of Christ that I have not run in vain or labored in vain.

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

Then I said,‘ I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and in vain; Yet surely my just reward is with the Lord, And my work with my God.’”