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

Then Jesus answered, "O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to me."

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!

He came to his own, and his own did not receive him.

But of Israel he says, "All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people."

I fear for you, that perhaps I have labored over you in vain.

Spent

I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you the more, am I to be loved the less?

Yet

Did not the Christ have to suffer these things and enter his glory?"

I have glorified you on the earth, having finished the work which you have given me to do.

For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing,

Therefore God also highly exalted him, and bestowed on him the name which is above every name,

fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

General references

if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and so is your faith.