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

Jesus answered and said, O unbelieving and perverse generation! How long shall I be with you? How long shall I suffer you? Bring him here to me.

Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killing the prophets, and stoning those sent to you, how often would I have gathered your children together, as a bird gathers her brood under her wings, but you would not!

He came to his own, and his own received him not.

But in respect to Israel he says, All the day I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contradicting people.

I am afraid of you, lest I have expended labor on you in vain.

Spent

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

Yet

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

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

for we are a sweet odor of Christ to God, in the saved and in the lost,

Wherefore God also highly exalted him, and gave him a name which is above every name,

looking to the chief guide and perfecter of the faith, Jesus, who for the joy set before him despised the shame and endured the cross, and sat down on the right hand of God.

General references

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