So, my dear brothers, continue to be firm, incapable of being moved, always letting the cup run over in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the service of the Lord is never thrown away.

to submit yourselves to people like these and to anyone else who shares their labor and hard work.

He that plants and he that waters are one; and each shall receive his reward according to his labor.

and labor, working with our hands; being reviled we bless, being persecuted we endure,

Or I only and Barnabas, have we not a right to abstain from 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 to me was not in vain, but I labored more abundantly than they all, but not I but the grace of God 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;