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.

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Bible References

I have laboured

Matthew 17:17
And Jesus, answering, said, "O faithless and perverted generation! How long shall I be with you? Bring him here to Me."
Matthew 23:37
Jerusalem! Jerusalem! that kills the prophets, and stones those sent to her! how often did I wish to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
John 1:11
He came to His own possessions, and those who were His own received Him not.
Romans 10:21
But in respect to Israel He saith, "All the day long did I spread out My hand to a disobedient and gain-saying people."
Galatians 4:11
I am afraid of you, lest by any means I have toiled for you in vain.

Spent

2 Corinthians 12:15
And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I to be loved the less?

Yet

Luke 24:26
Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things, and enter into His glory?"
John 17:4
I glorified Thee on the earth; having completed the work which Thou hast given Me to do.
2 Corinthians 2:15
because we are to God a sweet savor of Christ, in those who are being saved, and in those who are perishing;
Philippians 2:9
Wherefore also God highly exalted Him, and bestowed upon Him the name which is above every name;
Hebrews 12:2
looking away to the Author and Perfecter of our faith, Jesus; Who, in consideration of the joy lying before Him, endured the cross, despising shame, and hath taken a seat at the right hand of the throne of God.

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1 Corinthians 15:14
and, if Christ hath not been raised, then is our preaching vain, and vain is your faith;