So then, you should rather forgive and comfort him, lest somehow this person should be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.

[We are] trying to avoid this, lest anyone should find fault with us in this abundant gift that is being administered by us.

lest somehow if Macedonians should come with me and find you unprepared, we--{not to speak of you}--would be humiliated in connection with this project.

But I am afraid lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds may be led astray from the sincerity and the purity of [devotion] to Christ.

Five times I received at the hands of the Jews forty [lashes] less one.

But I will spend and be expended most gladly for your lives. If I love you much more, am I to be loved less?

For I am afraid lest somehow [when I] arrive, I will not find you as I want, and I may be found by you as you do not want. [I am afraid] lest somehow [there will be] strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, pride, disorder.

[I am afraid] lest [when I] come again my God will humiliate me {in your presence}, and I will grieve over many of those who sinned previously and have not repented because of their impurity and sexual immorality and licentiousness that they have practiced.