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

In reply Jesus said: "O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I endure you? Bring him here to me!"

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, murdering the prophets, and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children together, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not!

He came to his own creation, and his own folk welcomed him not.

But to Israel he says, All day long I have been spreading out my hands unto a disobedient and contrary people.

I am alarmed about you for fear lest I may have bestowed labor on you to no purpose.

Spent

For my part, I will most gladly spend, yea, and will myself be spent, for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I to be loved the less?

Yet

"Behooved it not the Christ to suffer thus, and then to enter into his glory?"

I have glorified thee on the earth; I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.

I am Christ's fragrance upwafted unto God, among those who are being saved and those who are perishing;

And for this God highly exalted him, and graciously bestowed upon him the name which is above every name;

looking unto Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured a cross, despising shame, and has now taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.

General references

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