Isaiah 49:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God.

I have laboured

Galatians 4:11

Spent

2 Corinthians 12:15

Yet

Hebrews 12:2

General references

1 Corinthians 15:14

Bible References

I have laboured

And Jesus answered, "O you unbelieving and perverted people of the times! How long can I put up with you? Bring him here to me!"

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! The city that has kept on murdering the prophets, and stoning those who have been sent to her, how often I have yearned to gather your children around me, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, but you refused!

He came into His own world, but His own people did not welcome Him.

But of Israel he said: "All day long I have held out my hands to a people that is disobedient and obstinate."

I am beginning to fear that I have bestowed my labors on you for nothing.

Spent

So in my own case, I will most happily spend my money and myself for your sakes. If I love you much more than I love others, am I to be loved less by you?

Yet

Did not the Christ have to suffer these things and thus to enter into His glory?"

I have glorified you down here upon the earth by completing the work which you have given me to do.

Indeed, I am the fragrance of Christ to God, alike for those who are being saved and for those who are perishing;

This is why God has highly exalted Him, and given Him the name that is above every other name,

keeping our eyes on Jesus, the perfect leader and example of faith, who, instead of the joy which lay before Him, endured the cross with no regard for its shame, and since has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of God.

General references

and if Christ was not raised, the message which we preach has nothing in it; there is nothing in our faith either,