11 Bible Verses about Useless Labour

Why, you make me afraid I may have spent my labour on you for nothing!

Obey your leaders, submit to them; for they are alive to the interests of your souls, as men who will have to account for their trust. Let their work be a joy to them and not a grief ??which would be a loss to yourselves.

if any of you says to them, "Depart in peace! Get warm, get food," without supplying their bodily needs, what use is that?

(It was in consequence of a revelation that I went up at all.) I submitted the gospel I am in the habit of preaching to the Gentiles, submitting it privately to the authorities, to make sure that my course of action would be and had been sound.

Well then, unable to bear it any longer, I sent to find out about your faith, in case the Tempter had tempted you and our labour had been thrown away.

Have you had all that experience for nothing (if it has really gone for nothing)?

At the same time I am sending these brothers just in case my pride in you should prove an empty boast in this particular instance; I want you to be "all ready," as I have been telling them that you would be,

hold fast the word of life, so that I can be proud of you on the Day of Christ, because I have not run or worked for nothing.

Well, I run without swerving; I do not plant my blows upon the empty air ??27 no, I maul and master my body, in case, after preaching to other people, I am disqualified myself.

Well then, my beloved brothers, hold your ground, immovable; abound in work for the Lord at all times, for you may be sure that in the Lord your labour is never thrown away.

But you remember yourselves, brothers, that our visit to you was no failure.