For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”

yet in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, in order to teach others also, than 10,000 words in another language.

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.

I went up according to a revelation and presented to them the gospel I preach among the Gentiles—but privately to those recognized as leaders—so that I might not be running, or have run the race, in vain.

Working together with Him, we also appeal to you, “Don’t receive God’s grace in vain.”

Hold firmly to the message of life. Then I can boast in the day of Christ that I didn’t run or labor for nothing.

They worship Me in vain,
teaching as doctrines the commands of men.”

They worship Me in vain,
teaching as doctrines the commands of men.