11 Bible Verses about Useless Labour
Most Relevant Verses
Brethren, I beseech you, be ye as I am; for I also am as ye were: ye have not injured me at all.
Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves; for they watch over your souls, as they that must give account; that they may do this with joy, and not with groans: for that is unprofitable for you.
and want daily food, And one of you say to them, Depart in peace; be ye warmed and filled, but give them not the things needful for the body, what doth it profit?
I went up by revelation, and explained to them the gospel, which I preach among the Gentiles; but severally to those of eminence, lest by any means I should run, or should have run in vain.
Therefore when I could bear no longer, I sent to know your faith, left by any means the tempter should have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.
Yet I have sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you on this head should be made vain, that, as I said, ye may be ready;
Holding fast the word of life, that I may glory in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; I so fight, not as one that beateth the air.
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.
For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance to you, that it was not in vain: But even after we had suffered before,
