Therefore, my dear brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the Lord’s work, knowing that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

Now the one planting and the one watering are one in purpose, and each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

we labor, working with our own hands. When we are reviled, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;

that you also be subject to such people, and to all those who work together and labor.

Are we the only ones, Barnabas and I, who have no right to give up manual labor?

They have refreshed my spirit as well as yours. So fully acknowledge such men and deeply appreciate them.

But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not found vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Now if Timothy come, see that he be with you without fear; for he is laboring in the work of the Lord, as I am;