Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.

General references

Bible References

I sent

1 Thessalonians 3:2
And we sent Timothy, our brother, and a helper of God, and our fellow workman in the good-news of the Christ, in order to establish you and to encourage you about your faith,
Acts 15:36
And after some days Paul said to Barnabas, After returning, surely we could help our brothers in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, how they fare.
2 Corinthians 7:5
For even when we came into Macedonia our flesh had not one relief, but being oppressed in everything: battles outside, fears within.

And our

1 Thessalonians 2:1
For ye yourselves know, brothers, our entrance with you, that it has not become empty.
Isaiah 49:4
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 LORD, and my recompense with my God.
Galatians 2:2
And I went up according to revelation, and I declared to them the good-news that I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to those who were of repute, lest somehow I might be running or ran in vain.
Galatians 4:11
I am afraid of you, lest somehow I have labored toward you in vain.
Philippians 2:16
Holding firm the word of life, for a boast by me in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.

General references

Daniel 6:19
Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste to the den of lions.