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

Then Jesus answered and said, O unbelieving and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I bear with you?

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

yea, He came to his own peculiar right, and even his own people received Him not.

and saith to Israel, "All the day long have I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and gainsaying people."

so that I am afraid for you, least I have indeed bestowed upon you labour in vain.

Spent

And I will with the greatest pleasure spend and be spent for your souls; even though the more I love you, the less I should be loved.

Yet

Was not the Messiah to suffer these things, and so to enter into his glory?

I have glorified Thee on earth, I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do:

For we are the sweet odor of Christ unto God, in them that are saved, yea and in them that perish:

Wherefore God hath highly exalted Him, and given Him a name above every name:

looking unto Jesus the leader and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

General references

And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.