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
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Bible References
I have laboured
Matthew 17:17
Jesus answered, "O faithless and perverse generation, how long must I still be with you? How long have I to bear with you? Bring him here to me."
Matthew 23:37
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! slaying the prophets and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often I would fain have gathered your children as a fowl gathers her brood under her wings! But you would not have it!
John 1:11
he came to what was his own, yet his own folk did not welcome him.
Romans 10:21
He also says of Israel, All the day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.
Galatians 4:11
Why, you make me afraid I may have spent my labour on you for nothing!
Spent
2 Corinthians 12:15
And for your souls I will gladly spend my all and be spent myself. Am I to be loved the less because I love you more than others?
Yet
Luke 24:26
Had not the Christ to suffer thus and so enter his glory?"
John 17:4
I have glorified thee on earth by accomplishing the work thou gavest me to do;
2 Corinthians 2:15
I live for God as the fragrance of Christ breathed alike on those who are being saved and on those who are perishing,
Philippians 2:9
Therefore God raised him high and conferred on him a Name above all names,
Hebrews 12:2
our eyes fixed upon Jesus as the pioneer and the perfection of faith ??upon Jesus who, in order to reach his own appointed joy, steadily endured the cross, thinking nothing of its shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
General references
1 Corinthians 15:14
and if Christ did not rise, then our preaching has gone for nothing, and your faith has gone for nothing too.