Exodus 18:18

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

You and the people with you will wear yourselves out, for the thing is too heavy for you; you are not able to perform it alone.

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Moses' father-in-law said to him, “What you are doing is not good.

I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you the more, am I to be loved the less?

for he nearly died for the work of Christ, risking his life to complete your service to me.