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 answering, said, O generation, faithless, and perverse! how long shall I be with you? how long shall I bear with you? bring him hither to me.

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest the prophets, and stonest those who were sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children to me, as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not?

He came unto his peculiar people, and his peculiar people did not receive him.

But unto Israel he saith, "All the day long have I stretched out my hands unto a people disobedient and contradicting."

I am afraid for you, lest haply I have bestowed on you labour in vain.

Spent

And I will most cheerfully spend and be spent for your souls, though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.

Yet

Ought not the Messiah to suffer these things, and to enter into his glory?

I have glorified thee upon earth: I have completed the work which thou gavest me to perform.

For we are a sweet odour of Christ to God in those who are saved, and in those who perish.

Wherefore God also hath transcendently exalted him, and bestowed on him a name which is above every name:

earnestly looking up to Jesus the author and the finisher of faith; who, for the joy set before him, endured the cross, despising shame, and hath sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

General references

and if Christ be not risen, vain indeed is our preaching, and vain also your faith.