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

"O unbelieving and perverse generation!" replied Jesus; "how long shall I be with you? how long shall I endure you? Bring him to me."

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! thou who murderest the Prophets and stonest those who have been sent to thee! how often have I desired to gather thy children to me, just as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not come!

He came to the things that were His own, and His own people gave Him no welcome.

While as to Israel he says, "All day long I have stretched out My arms to a self-willed and fault-finding people."

I am alarmed about you, and am afraid that I have perhaps bestowed labour upon you to no purpose.

Spent

And as for me, most gladly will I spend all I have and be utterly spent for your salvation.

Yet

Was there not a necessity for the Christ thus to suffer, and then enter into His glory?"

I have glorified Thee on earth, having done perfectly the work which by Thine appointment has been mine to do.

For we are a fragrance of Christ grateful to God in those whom He is saving and in those who are perishing;

It is in consequence of this that God has also so highly exalted Him, and has conferred on Him the Name which is supreme above every other,

simply fixing our gaze upon Jesus, our Prince Leader in the faith, who will also award us the prize. He, for the sake of the joy which lay before Him, patiently endured the cross, looking with contempt upon its shame, and afterwards seated Himself-- where He still sits--at the right hand of the throne of God.

General references

And if Christ has not risen, it follows that what we preach is a delusion, and that your faith also is a delusion.