Galatians 4:11

I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain. I am afraid of you - I begin now to be seriously alarmed for you, and think you are so thoroughly perverted from the Gospel of Christ, that all my pains and labor in your conversion have been thrown away.

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¹¹ I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.

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