holding fast to the word of life, for a source of pride to me in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.

But if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching [is] in vain, and your faith [is] in vain.

For by your words you will be vindicated, and by your words you will be condemned."

[things] which we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in [words] taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual [things] to spiritual [people].

but in the church I prefer to speak five words with my mind, in order that I may instruct other [people], than ten thousand words in a tongue.

and they worship me in vain, teaching [as] doctrines the commandments of men.'"

And they worship me in vain, teaching [as] doctrines the commandments of men.'

the one who said by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of our father David, your servant, 'Why do the nations rage, and the peoples conspire in vain?

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been in vain, but I labored even more than all of them, and not I, but the grace of God with me.

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.

Now [because we] are fellow workers, we also urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

Now I went up [there] because of a revelation and laid out to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles, but in private to the influential people, lest somehow I was running, or had run, in vain.

I am afraid [for] you, lest perhaps I have labored for you in vain!

For [you] yourselves know, brothers, our reception with you, that it was not in vain,

Because of this, I also, [when I] could endure [it] no longer, sent in order to know your faith, lest somehow the tempter tempted you and our labor should be in vain.

Or do you think that in vain the scripture says, "The spirit which he caused to dwell in us desires jealously"?