I am afraid for you, that somehow I have wasted my efforts on you. — Paul's fear ('phobeomai') expresses apostolic anguish: his labor ('kopos' — hard work) among the Galatians might prove to have been 'in vain' ('mataiōs'), nullified by their reversion to slavery, a pastoral anxiety that shows his deep investment in their freedom.

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