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
Spent
General references
Bible References
I have laboured
Matthew 17:17
And Jesus responding said: O, faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? bring him hither to me.
Matthew 23:37
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them that have been sent unto thee! how frequently did I wish to gather together thy children, in the manner in which a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but ye were not willing!
John 1:11
He came unto His own, and His own received Him not.
Romans 10:21
But to Israel he says, All day long have I reached forth my hands to a gainsaying and disobedient people.
Spent
2 Corinthians 12:15
But I will most delightfully spend and be spent for your souls. If the more abundantly I love you am I loved the less?
Yet
Luke 24:26
Did it not behoove Christ to suffer, and to enter into His glory?
John 17:4
I glorified thee upon the earth, having finished the work that thou hast given to me that I may do it.
2 Corinthians 2:15
because we are a sweet savour of Christ unto God, among those who are saved, and among those who perish;
Philippians 2:9
Therefore God has indeed exalted him, and given him a name above every name;
Hebrews 12:2
looking unto Jesus the beginner and perfecter of our faith; who for the joy that was placed before him, endured the cross, looking with contempt at the shame, and has sat down on the right hand of the throne of God.
General references
1 Corinthians 15:14
but if Christ is not risen, then indeed is our preaching vain, and your faith is vain.