1 Thessalonians 3:5

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent that I might know your faith, for fear that somehow the tempter had tempted you and that our labor would be in vain.

Cross References

Isaiah 49:4

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

Daniel 6:19

Then, at break of day, the king arose and went in haste to the den of lions.

Matthew 4:3

And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.”

Acts 15:36

And after some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Come, let us return and visit the brethren in every city where we proclaimed the word of the Lord, and see how they are.”

1 Corinthians 7:5

Do not refuse one another except perhaps by agreement for a season, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, lest Satan tempt you through lack of self-control.

2 Corinthians 2:11

to keep Satan from gaining the advantage over us; for we are not ignorant of his designs.

2 Corinthians 6:1

Working together with him, then, we entreat you not to accept the grace of God in vain.

Galatians 2:2

I went up by revelation; and I laid before them (but privately before those who were of repute) the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, lest somehow I should be running or had run in vain.

Galatians 4:11

I am afraid I have labored over you in vain.

Ephesians 4:14

so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the cunning of men, by their craftiness in deceitful wiles.

Philippians 2:16

holding fast the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.

Philippians 2:19

I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I may be cheered by news of you.

1 Thessalonians 2:1

For you yourselves know, brethren, that our visit to you was not in vain;

1 Thessalonians 3:6

But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has brought us the good news of your faith and love and reported that you always remember us kindly and long to see us, as we long to see you—