Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.

General references

Bible References

I sent

1 Thessalonians 3:2
and we sent Timothy, our brother and God’s fellow worker in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you as to your faith,
Acts 15:36
After some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us return and visit the brethren in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, and see how they are.”
2 Corinthians 7:5
For even when we came into Macedonia our flesh had no rest, but we were afflicted on every side: conflicts without, fears within.

And our

1 Thessalonians 2:1
For you yourselves know, brethren, that our coming to you was not in vain,
Isaiah 49:4
But I said, “I have toiled in vain,
I have spent My strength for nothing and vanity;
Yet surely the justice due to Me is with the Lord,
And My reward with My God.”
Galatians 2:2
It was because of a revelation that I went up; and I submitted to them the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but I did so in private to those who were of reputation, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.
Galatians 4:11
I fear for you, that perhaps I have labored over you in vain.
Philippians 2:16
holding fast the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I will have reason to glory because I did not run in vain nor toil in vain.

General references

Daniel 6:19
Then the king arose at dawn, at the break of day, and went in haste to the lions’ den.

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