| Isaiah 49 4 |
Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God. |
| Ecclesiastes 1 14 |
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. |
| Ecclesiastes 2 21 |
For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil. |
| Ecclesiastes 4 4 |
Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit. |
| Ecclesiastes 2 10 |
And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour. |
| Ecclesiastes 2 18 |
Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me. |
| Ecclesiastes 2 17 |
Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit. |
| Ecclesiastes 2 22 |
For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun? |
| Ecclesiastes 2 19 |
And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity. |
| Acts 13 41 |
Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you. |
| John 4 38 |
I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours. |
| Ecclesiastes 8 17 |
Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea farther; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it. |
| 1 Corinthians 13 3 |
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. |
| Ecclesiastes 3 9 |
What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth? |
| Ecclesiastes 1 3 |
What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? |
| Proverbs 13 11 |
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase. |
| Ecclesiastes 2 20 |
Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun. |
| Romans 4 4 |
Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. |
| Hosea 12 8 |
And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin. |
| Psalms 73 3 |
For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. |
| Deuteronomy 8 17 |
And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth. |
| Isaiah 41 29 |
Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion. |
| Isaiah 44 9 |
They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed. |
| Psalms 39 6 |
Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. |
| Matthew 25 24 |
Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed: |
| James 2 20 |
But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? |
| Ecclesiastes 5 16 |
And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind? |
| Ecclesiastes 1 17 |
And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. |
| Ecclesiastes 1 8 |
All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. |
| Ecclesiastes 2 12 |
And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been already done. |
| Daniel 10 8 |
Therefore I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me: for my comeliness was turned in me into corruption, and I retained no strength. |
| Ecclesiastes 6 9 |
Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit. |
| Ecclesiastes 2 26 |
For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit. |
| 2 John 1 8 |
Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. |
| Colossians 1 29 |
Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily. |
| James 5 4 |
Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. |
| Ecclesiastes 2 1 |
I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity. |
| Ezekiel 15 5 |
Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less shall it be meet yet for any work, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned? |
| Psalms 31 10 |
For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed. |
| Psalms 30 9 |
What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth? |
| 1 Timothy 4 8 |
For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. |
| Ecclesiastes 2 15 |
Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity. |
| Exodus 35 35 |
Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work. |
| Acts 5 4 |
Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God. |
| Proverbs 23 4 |
Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom. |
| Acts 20 20 |
And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house, |
| Ecclesiastes 3 22 |
Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him? |
| 1 Corinthians 15 10 |
But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. |
| 1 Corinthians 4 12 |
And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it: |
| Colossians 2 18 |
Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, |