11 Bible Verses about Useless Labour
Most Relevant Verses
Obey those who rule over you, and be submissive: for they watch for your souls, as those who must give an account; that they may do this with joy, and not with grief: for that would be fatal to you.
and any of you say to them, Go in peace, be warmed and be filled, and yet give them not the things that are needful for the body, what does this profit them?
And I went up because of a revelation, and communicated to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to those who are of reputation, lest, by any means, I should run or had run in vain.
For this reason, when I could no longer contain my self, I sent to know your faith, lest by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor should be in vain.
But I have sent the brethren, that our boasting of you in this respect may not be in vain; that you may be ready, as I said:
holding forth the word of life, that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain, nor labor in vain.
I, therefore, so run, not as with uncertainty; I so aim my blows, not as one that beats the air;
Therefore, my be loved brethren, be firm, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord; for you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
For you yourselves know, brethren, our entrance among you, that it was not in vain.
