I sent you to reap what you didn’t labor for; others have labored, and you have benefited from their labor.”

For ye remember, brothers, our labor and the hardship. For, laboring night and day in order not to burden any of you, we preached to you the good-news of God.

Salute Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labor in the Lord. Salute Persis the beloved, who labored much in the Lord.

holding out and offering to everyone the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I will have reason to rejoice greatly because I did not run [my race] in vain nor labor without result.

However, I thought it necessary to send back to you Epaphroditus, [who has been] my brother and companion and fellow soldier, who was also sent as your messenger to take care of my needs.

For this I labor [often to the point of exhaustion], striving with His power and energy, which so greatly works within me.

We beg you, brothers, to practice showing respect to those who labor among you, who are your leaders in the Lord's work, and who advise you;

I did not eat any man's bread without paying for it, but with toil and hard labor I worked night and day, in order not to be a burden to any of you.

I am alarmed about you for fear lest I may have bestowed labor on you to no purpose.

Let the man who steals steal no more, but rather let him labor, working with his hands the good, so that he may have to give to him who has need.

But if to live in flesh, this is fruit of labor to me, then what I will choose I know not.

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope of our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

Because of this, I too, no longer covering over it, sent in order to know your faith, lest somehow he who tempts was tempting you, and our labor became in vain.

For we both labor and are reproached for this, because we have hoped in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of the faithful.

Let the elders who rule well be regarded worthy of double compensation, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

Come to me, all [of you] who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.

For God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the labor of love that ye showed toward his name, having served the sanctified, and who are serving.

And why care ye then for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They labor not, neither spin:

For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together with labor pains until now.

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;

labor and hardship,
many sleepless nights, hunger and thirst,
often without food, cold, and lacking clothing.

For it is written:

Rejoice, childless woman,
who does not give birth.
Burst into song and shout,
you who are not in labor,
for the children of the desolate are many,
more numerous than those
of the woman who has a husband.

Our people must learn to do good deeds to meet necessary demands [whatever the occasion may require], so that they will not be unproductive.

While they are saying, “Peace and safety [all is well and secure!]” then [in a moment unforeseen] destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains on a woman with child, and they will absolutely not escape [for there will be no way to escape the judgment of the Lord].

Consider the lilies, how they grow. They labor not. They spin not. And yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all this royalty was not clothed like to one of these.

When a woman is in labor she has pain because her time has come. But when she has given birth to a child, she no longer remembers the suffering because of the joy that a person has been born into the world.

She was pregnant and cried out in labor and agony as she was about to give birth.

Labor not for the meat which perisheth, but for the meat that endureth unto everlasting life, which meat the son of man shall give unto you. For him hath God the father sealed."

Salute Mary, who bestowed much labor on you.

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

For I bear him witness, that he hath much labor for you, and for them in Laodicea, and for them in Hierapolis.

'I know your works, and your labor and patient endurance, and that you are not able to tolerate evil, and you put to the test those who call themselves apostles and are not, and you found them [to be] false.

because in one hour such great wealth has been laid waste!" And every shipmaster and {every seafarer} and sailors and all those who labor on the sea stood {far off}

Wherefore we labor, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted by him.

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

Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain: and if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labor:

For when you go with your adversary to a ruler, on the way labor to be released from him, lest he take you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer cast you into prison;

So, when we could not stand it any longer [Note: Paul's concern for the spiritual well-being of the Thessalonian Christians became unbearable], we [i.e., I, See verse 5] thought it best to be left behind, alone, at Athens [Note: Paul was willing to labor alone at Athens, so he could send his fellow-workers to minister to others. See Acts 17],

My children, with whom I am again in labor until Christ is formed in you—

if a service [let us labor] in the service, if one teaches, in teaching,

The farmers who labor must be the first to get a share of the crops.

And again I say to you, It is of easier labor for a camel to pass through the hole of a needle, than for a rich one to come into the kingdom of God.

Take heed to yourselves, that ye lose not the labor which you performed, but receive a full reward.

And the fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast; and his kingdom was darkened, and they gnawed their tongues from painful labor,

It is easier labor for a camel to come through the hole of a needle, than for a rich one to come into the kingdom of God.

Some truly of hired labor announce Christ, not purely, thinking to bring pressure upon my bonds:

Nothing by hired labor, or vainglory; but in lowliness the leaders hold each other above themselves.

For reckon over him having endured such contradiction of the sinful against himself, lest being harassed, ye labor in your souls.

And we know [with great confidence] that God [who is deeply concerned about us] causes all things to work together [as a plan] for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to His plan and purpose.

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

For the one who has once entered His rest has also rested from [the weariness and pain of] his [human] labors, just as God rested from [those labors uniquely] His own.

I left nothing undone to show you that, laboring as I labored, you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said himself-- 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"

As for Titus, remember that he is a partner of mine, and is also my associate in labors for you. As for the other brothers, remember that they are delegates from the churches, men in whom Christ is glorified.

I am not "boasting beyond measure in the labors of others," but it is my hope that, as your faith goes on increasing among yourselves, by the enlargement of my appointed limits,

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as though I were beside myself), such, far, more, am I; in labors more abundant, in imprisonments also more abundant, in floggings beyond measure, in deaths often.

Yes, I ask thee also, genuine yokefellow, help them--the women who labored with me in the good-news--with Clement also, and the rest of my co-workmen whose names are in the book of life.

And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, "Write, 'Blessed are the dead, which hereafter die in the Lord: Even so, saith the spirit, that they may rest from their labors; but their works shall follow them.'"

by beatings, by imprisonments,
by riots, by labors,
by sleepless nights, by times of hunger,

And as we labored exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw the the freight overboard;

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.

Only let your conversation be, as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may yet hear of you, that ye continue in one spirit, and in one soul laboring as we do to maintain the faith of the gospel,

And have endured, and have patience, and for my name's sake have labored, and have not fainted.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always laboring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

and because they were of the same craft, abode with them, and they labored: for they were tentmakers by trade.

And Simon answered and said to him, Master, we have labored all night and taken nothing; but at your word I will let down the net.

Seeing them laboring at the oars--for the wind was against them--about three hours after midnight Jesus came towards them, walking on the water, intending to join them.

And the ship was already midsea, laboring by the waves; for the wind was contrary.

saying, These labored one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, who bore the burden of the day and the heat.

and blasphemed the God of heaven on account of their painful labors and their ulcers, and they changed not their minds to turn from their works.

But I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that I often purposed to come to you, though I have been hindered hitherto, that I might have some fruit of my labors among you also, as among the other gentiles.

For this perfume might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii [a laborer’s wages for almost a year], and the money given to the poor.” And they scolded her.

while you join in helping us by your prayers. Then thanks will be given by many persons on our behalf for the gracious gift [of deliverance] granted to us through the prayers of many [believers].

Working together with Him, we strongly urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain [by turning away from sound doctrine and His merciful kindness].

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;