Isaiah 65:23

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.

Shall

For

General references

Ecclesiastes 3:13

Bible References

Shall

But I myself said, "I have labored in vain; I have used up my strength for nothing and vanity! Nevertheless, my justice [is] with Yahweh, and my reward [is] with my God."

Why do you weigh out money for [what is] not food, and your labor for {what cannot satisfy}? Listen carefully to me, and eat [what is] good, and let your soul take pleasure in {rich} food.

And their descendants will be known among the nations, and their offspring in the midst of the peoples. All those who see them shall recognize them, that they [are] descendants [whom] Yahweh has blessed.

" 'If you walk in my statutes and you keep my commands and you do them,

"You will be blessed in the city, and you will be blessed in the field.

Ephraim's glory [is] like a bird; it will fly away-- no birth, no pregnancy, and no conception.

You have sown much but have harvested little. You have eaten without [being] satisfied; {you have drunk without being satiated}; you have worn clothes without [being] warm; the one who earns wages puts it in {a pouch with holes}.'

[Is there] still seed in the store chamber? Do the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree still produce nothing? From this day [forward] I will bless [you].'"

Bring the whole tithe to {the storehouse}, so that there will be food in my house, and test me please in this," says Yahweh of hosts, "if I will not open for you the windows of heaven, and pour forth for you {an overflowing blessing}.

So then, my dear brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, [because you] know that your labor is not [in] vain in the Lord.

For

And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great. And you will be a blessing.

And I will establish my covenant between me and you, and between your offspring after you, throughout their generations as an everlasting covenant to be as God for you and to your offspring after you.

May Yahweh give you increase, you and your children.

And they will be for me a people, and I will be for them God.

I will whistle to them and gather them, for I have redeemed them, and they will become numerous as they have been numerous [before].

For the promise is for you and for your children, and for all those [who are] far away, as many as the Lord our God calls to himself."

You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God ordained with your fathers, saying to Abraham, 'And in your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed.'

Because of this, [it is] by faith, in order that [it may be] according to grace, so that the promise may be secure to all the descendants, not only to those of the law, but also to those of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all

nor [are they] all children because they are descendants of Abraham, but "In Isaac will your descendants be named."

And if you [are] Christ's, then you are descendants of Abraham, heirs according to the promise.

General references

And for anyone to eat and drink, that is, {to enjoy the fruit of all his toil}, this also is a gift of God.