30 Bible Verses about Useless Labour
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In all your dwellings the cities shalt be laid waste, and the heights shall be made desolate; so that your altars shall be laid waste and destroyed, and your blocks were broken and ceased, and your images were cut down, and your works were wiped away.
Behold, is it not from Jehovah of armies, and the peoples shall labor in a sufficiency of fire, and the peoples shall be wearied in a sufficiency of emptiness?
(And David said, Surely in vain did I watch all which was to this one in the desert, and not any thing was missed from all which was to him; and he will turn back to me evil for good.
Continuing, yet our eyes will fail, for our help in vain: in our watching we watched for a nation it will not save us.
And your strength shall be exhausted to no purpose: and your land shall not give its produce, and the tree of the land shall not give its fruit
Thus said Jehovah of armies: The broad walls of Babel being demolished, shall be demolished, and her high gates shall be burnt in fire; the peoples shall labor in vain, the nations for the fire, and they shall be weary.
In vain for you rising early to arise from after sitting; eating the bread of toils: so will he give to his beloved sleep.
Surely I will do this to you, and I appointed over you terror, consumption, and burning fever, destroying the eyes and consuming the soul: and ye sowed in vain your seed, and your enemies shall eat it.
For gratuitously the net was spread in the eyes of all possessing a wing.
The bellows were burnt from their fire, the founder melted the lead in vain, and the evil were not plucked up.
And thou being laid waste, what wilt thou do? If thou shalt put on scarlet, if thou shalt adorn thee with ornaments of gold, if thou shalt rend thine eyes with paint, in vain shalt thou beautify thyself: the lovers despised thee; they will Seek thy soul.
And I said, I labored in vain, for emptiness; and I finish my strength vainly; surely my judgment is with Jehovah and my work with my God.
Believe them guiding you, and yield: (for they watch vigilantly for your souls, as going to return the word.) that with joy they might do this, and not lamenting: for this unprofitable for you.
And the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose; therefore I called to this their violence ceased.
In vain did I strike your sons; they received no instruction: your sword consumed the prophets as a lion destroying.
And any of you say to them, Retire in peace, be ye warmed and be ye fed; and ye give them not things fitting the body; what profit?
And he consecrated to Jehovah the day of his consecration, and he brought a lamb, the son of a year, for trespass: and the former days shall fall because his consecration was defiled.
And they comforted you, for ye shall see their way and their doings; and ye know that not in vain did I do all which I did in her, says the Lord Jehovah.
And they shall know that I am Jehovah; not in vain spake I to do to them this evil.
And I went up according to revelation, and placed before them the good news which I proclaim in the nations, but apart to them highly esteemed, lest I run in vain, or ran.
For this I also, no more concealing, sent to know your faith, lest some way he tempting have tempted you, and our labor be in vain.
They shall not labor in vain, and they shall not bring forth for terror; for they the seed of the blessed of Jehovah, and their offspring with them.
And I sent the brethren, lest our boasting for you be empty in this part; that, as I said, ye might be prepared:
Holding on to the word of life; for boasting to me in the day of Christ, for I ran not in vain, nor was I wearied in vain.
I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so practise I pugilism, as not laying stripes upon air:
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be stable, unmoved, abounding in the work of the Lord always, knowing that our fatigue is not in vain in the Lord.
For ye yourselves know, brethren, our entrance to you, that it was not in vain:
