10 Bible Verses about Useless Labour

I begin to be afraid that perhaps the labor I spent on you was wasted.

Obey your leaders and give way to them, for they are keeping watch in defense of your souls, as men accountable for the trust. Make their work a joy and not a grief, for that would be the worse for you.

and one of you says to them, "Goodbye, keep warm and have plenty to eat," without giving them the necessaries of life, what good does it do?

It was in obedience to a revelation that I went. I laid before them the good news that I preach to the heathen, presenting it privately to the leaders, for fear my efforts might be or might have been futile.

That was why, when I could not bear it any longer, I sent to find out about your faith, for I was afraid that the tempter might have tempted you and all our labor might be lost.

Have you gone through so much, all for nothing???f it really is for nothing!

But I send the brothers so that our pride in you may not have a fall in this matter, but you may be all ready as I have told them you will;

offering men the message of life. Then I will have reason to boast of you on the Day of Christ, because my exertion and labor have not been wasted.

So that is the way I run, unswervingly. That is the way I fight, not punching the air.

You know yourselves, brothers, that our visit to you was far from ineffectual.