I sent you to reap what ye have not labored. Others have labored, and ye have entered into their labor.

For we are co-workmen of God. Ye are a tillage of God, an edifice of God.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. And his grace for me did not become empty, but I labored more abundantly than them all, yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

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.

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.

Epaphras, the bondman of Christ from you, salutes you, always striving for you in prayers, so that ye may stand perfect and made full in all the will of God.

But I said, I have labored in vain. I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity. Yet surely the justice [due] to me is with LORD, and my recompense with my God.

I am afraid of you, lest somehow I have labored toward you in vain.

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.

Then he says to his disciples, The harvest truly is plentiful, but the workmen are few. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth workmen into his harvest.