11 Bible Verses about Useless Labour
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so that I am afraid for you, least I have indeed bestowed upon you labour in vain.
Be ruled by those that are your guides, and submit to them: for they watch for your souls; (as those that must give an account) that they may do it with joy and not with uneasiness: for this were unprofitable for you.
and one of you say to them, Go in peace, be ye warmed and be ye filled: but ye give them not the necessaries of life, what profit is it to them?
But I went up according to a divine revelation, and laid before them the gospel which I preach among the gentiles: though privately to those of note, least I should run, or had run in vain.
For this cause being able to wait no longer, I sent to know the state of your faith, least the tempter should have tempted you, and our labor have been in vain.
But I have sent the brethren, that our boasting of you might not become vain in this respect, but that ye might be ready, as I had said:
exhibiting the word of life; to my rejoicing in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, nor laboured in vain.
I therefore so run, not as unobserved: I so fight, not as one that beateth the air:
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, since ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
For ye yourselves, brethren, know our entrance among you, that it was not in vain.
