1 Thessalonians 3:5
So when I could bear it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith, for fear that the tempter somehow tempted you and our toil had proven useless.
Matthew 4:3
The tempter came and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become bread."
Philippians 2:16
by holding on to the word of life so that on the day of Christ I will have a reason to boast that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.
1 Corinthians 7:5
Do not deprive each other, except by mutual agreement for a specified time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then resume your relationship, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
Galatians 2:2
I went there because of a revelation and presented to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles. But I did so only in a private meeting with the influential people, to make sure that I was not running -- or had not run -- in vain.
1 Thessalonians 3:1-2
So when we could bear it no longer, we decided to stay on in Athens alone.
Isaiah 49:4
But I thought, "I have worked in vain; I have expended my energy for absolutely nothing." But the Lord will vindicate me; my God will reward me.
Acts 15:36
After some days Paul said to Barnabas, "Let's return and visit the brothers in every town where we proclaimed the word of the Lord to see how they are doing."
2 Corinthians 2:11
so that we may not be exploited by Satan (for we are not ignorant of his schemes).
2 Corinthians 7:5-7
For even when we came into Macedonia, our body had no rest at all, but we were troubled in every way -- struggles from the outside, fears from within.
2 Corinthians 11:2-3
For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy, because I promised you in marriage to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:13-15
For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.
Galatians 1:6-9
I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are following a different gospel --
Galatians 4:11
I fear for you that my work for you may have been in vain.
Ephesians 4:14
So we are no longer to be children, tossed back and forth by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of people who craftily carry out their deceitful schemes.
1 Thessalonians 2:1
For you yourselves know, brothers and sisters, about our coming to you -- it has not proven to be purposeless.
1 Thessalonians 3:6
But now Timothy has come to us from you and given us the good news of your faith and love and that you always think of us with affection and long to see us just as we also long to see you!
James 1:13-14
Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God cannot be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.