For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don't desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;

Lest

I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.

Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

But I said, "I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely the justice [due] to me is with Yahweh, and my reward with my God."

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

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord's work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

holding up the word of life; that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn't run in vain nor labor in vain.

For this cause I also, when I couldn't stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.

Watch yourselves, that we don't lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.

General references

But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.

For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker.