1 Thessalonians 2:1

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

You yourselves know, brothers and sisters, that our coming to you was not in vain,

Cross References

Job 39:16

It deals cruelly with its young, as if they were not its own; though its labor should be in vain, yet it has no fear;

Psalm 127:1

Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord guards the city, the guard keeps watch in vain.

Psalm 73:13

All in vain I have kept my heart clean and washed my hands in innocence.

Isaiah 49:4

But I said, “I have labored in vain; I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely my cause is with the Lord and my reward with my God.”

Isaiah 65:23

They shall not labor in vain or bear children for calamity, for they shall be offspring blessed by the Lord— and their descendants as well.

Habakkuk 2:13

Is it not from the Lord of hosts that peoples labor only to feed the flames and nations weary themselves for nothing?

1 Corinthians 15:10

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me has not been in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I but the grace of God that is with me.

1 Corinthians 15:2

through which also you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message that I proclaimed to you—unless you have come to believe in vain.

1 Corinthians 15:58

Therefore, my beloved brothers and sisters, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the work of the Lord because you know that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

2 Corinthians 6:1

As we work together with him, we entreat you also not to accept the grace of God in vain.

Galatians 2:2

I went up in response to a revelation. Then I laid before them (though only in a private meeting with the acknowledged leaders) the gospel that I proclaim among the gentiles, in order to make sure that I was not running, or had not run, in vain.

Galatians 4:11

I am afraid that my work for you may have been wasted.

Philippians 2:16

holding forth the word of life so that I can boast on the day of Christ that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.

1 Thessalonians 2:13

We also constantly give thanks to God for this, that when you received the word of God that you heard from us you accepted it not as a human word but as what it really is, God’s word, which is also at work in you believers.

1 Thessalonians 3:5

For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith; I was afraid that somehow the tempter had tempted you and that our labor had been in vain.

2 Thessalonians 1:10

when he comes to be glorified by his saints and to be marveled at on that day among all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.

2 Thessalonians 3:1

Finally, brothers and sisters, pray for us, so that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified everywhere, just as it is among you,