11 Bible Verses about Useless Labour

I am afraid of you, lest I have expended labor on you in vain.

Obey your guides and be in subjection; for they watch for your souls as having to give an account, that they may do this with joy and not with grief; for this is unprofitable for you.

and one of you says to them, Go in peace, be warmed and be filled, but gives them not the necessary supplies for the body, what is the profit?

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.

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.

Have you suffered so much in vain? if indeed also it is in vain.

But I sent the brothers, that our boasting of you may not be in vain in this respect, as I said you were prepared,

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.

I therefore so run, not as uncertainly, and so strike, not as one who beats the air;

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.

For you know, brothers, our introduction to you that it was not in vain,