11 Bible Verses about Useless Labour

I fear for you, that perhaps I have labored over you in vain.

Obey your leaders and submit to them; for they are keeping watch over your souls, as men who will have to give account. Let them do this with joy, and not with grief, for that would be of no advantage to you.

and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that?

I went up because of a revelation; and I set before them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles. But I did this privately to those who were of reputation, for fear that I was running or had run my race in vain.

For this reason, when I could endure it no longer, I also sent to find out about your faith, for fear that the tempter might have tempted you, and our labor would be in vain.

Did you suffer so many things in vainif it really was in vain?

But I am sending the brethren so that our boasting about you may not prove vain in this case, so that you may be ready, as I said you would be;

holding fast the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.

Therefore I do not run aimlessly. I do not box as a man beating the air.

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

For you yourselves know, brethren, that our visit to you was not in vain;