1 Thessalonians 3:5

Young's Literal Translation 1862

because of this also, I, no longer forbearing, did send to know your faith, lest he who is tempting did tempt you, and in vain might be our labour.

Cross References

Isaiah 49:4

And I said, `For a vain thing I laboured, For emptiness and vanity my power I consumed, But my judgment `is' with Jehovah, And my wage with my God.

Daniel 6:19

Then doth the king rise in the early morning, at the light, and in haste to the den of lions he hath gone;

Matthew 4:3

And the Tempter having come to him said, `If Son thou art of God -- speak that these stones may become loaves.'

Acts 15:36

and after certain days, Paul said unto Barnabas, `Having turned back again, we may look after our brethren, in every city in which we have preached the word of the Lord -- how they are.'

1 Corinthians 7:5

Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that ye may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your incontinence;

2 Corinthians 2:11

that we may not be over-reached by the Adversary, for of his devices we are not ignorant.

2 Corinthians 6:1

And working together also we call upon `you' that ye receive not in vain the grace of God --

Galatians 2:2

and I went up by revelation, and did submit to them the good news that I preach among the nations, and privately to those esteemed, lest in vain I might run or did run;

Galatians 4:11

I am afraid of you, lest in vain I did labour toward you.

Ephesians 4:14

that we may no more be babes, tossed and borne about by every wind of the teaching, in the sleight of men, in craftiness, unto the artifice of leading astray,

Philippians 2:16

the word of life holding forth, for rejoicing to me in regard to a day of Christ, that not in vain did I run, nor in vain did I labour;

Philippians 2:19

And I hope, in the Lord Jesus, Timotheus to send quickly to you, that I also may be of good spirit, having known the things concerning you,

1 Thessalonians 2:1

For yourselves have known, brethren, our entrance in unto you, that it did not become vain,

1 Thessalonians 3:6

And now Timotheus having come unto us from you, and having declared good news to us of your faith and love, and that ye have a good remembrance of us always, desiring much to see us, as we also `to see' you,