For I fear lest when I come I shall not find you such as I wish, and that I shall be found such as you wish not; lest there shall be strife, envy, anger, contentions, evil speakings, whisperings, pride, dissensions;

Lest

and I went up by a revelation, and proposed to them the gospel which I preach to the gentiles, but privately to persons of distinction, lest I should run or had run in vain.

Behold, I Paul tell you, that if you are circumcised Christ will not profit you.

And passing through Phrygia and the country of Galatia, being forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia,

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

holding fast the word of life, for my glorying in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain, nor labor in vain.

For this reason, being no longer able to forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest in some way the tempter should have tempted you, and our labor be in vain.

Take heed to yourselves, that ye lose not the labor which you performed, but receive a full reward.

General references

But new wine must be put into new bottles.

For if I build up again what I have destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.