I sent you to reap what you didn’t labor for; others have labored, and you have benefited from their labor.”

Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Salute Mary, who bestowed much labor on you.

Salute Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labor in the Lord. Salute Persis the beloved, who labored much in the Lord.

Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: but each shall receive his own reward according to his own labor.

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not vain in the Lord.

in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

I am afraid of you, lest by any means I have bestowed labor upon you in vain.

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have whereof to give to him that hath need.

holding forth the word of life; that I may have whereof to glory in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain neither labor in vain.

whereunto I labor also, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

For I bear him witness, that he hath much labor for you, and for them in Laodicea, and for them in Hierapolis.

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

For ye remember, brethren, our labor and travail: working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

For this cause I also, when I could no longer forbear, sent that I might know your faith, lest by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor should be in vain.

But we beseech you, brethren, to know them that labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;

neither did we eat bread for nought at any man's hand, but in labor and travail, working night and day, that we might not burden any of you:

For to this end we labor and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of them that believe.

Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

For we know that the whole creation has been moaning together as in the pains of childbirth until now.

And we know [with great confidence] that God [who is deeply concerned about us] causes all things to work together [as a plan] for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to His plan and purpose.

Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to stop doing manual labor [in order to support our ministry]?

They have refreshed my spirit as well as yours. So fully acknowledge such men and deeply appreciate them.

However, I thought it necessary to send back to you Epaphroditus, [who has been] my brother and companion and fellow soldier, who was also sent as your messenger to take care of my needs.

While they are saying, “Peace and safety [all is well and secure!]” then [in a moment unforeseen] destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains on a woman with child, and they will absolutely not escape [for there will be no way to escape the judgment of the Lord].

Our people must learn to do good deeds to meet necessary demands [whatever the occasion may require], so that they will not be unproductive.

For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love which you have shown for His name in ministering to [the needs of] the saints (God’s people), as you do.

that you also be subject to such people, and to all those who work together and labor.

'I know your works, and your labor and patient endurance, and that you are not able to tolerate evil, and you put to the test those who call themselves apostles and are not, and you found them [to be] false.

because in one hour such great wealth has been laid waste!" And every shipmaster and {every seafarer} and sailors and all those who labor on the sea stood {far off}

And why do you worry about clothes? Learn how the wildflowers of the field grow: they don’t labor or spin thread.

“Consider how the wildflowers grow: They don’t labor or spin thread. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendor was adorned like one of these!

When a woman is in labor she has pain because her time has come. But when she has given birth to a child, she no longer remembers the suffering because of the joy that a person has been born into the world.

we labor, working with our own hands. When we are reviled, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;

For it is written:

Rejoice, childless woman,
who does not give birth.
Burst into song and shout,
you who are not in labor,
for the children of the desolate are many,
more numerous than those
of the woman who has a husband.

She was pregnant and cried out in labor and agony as she was about to give birth.

The farmers who labor must be the first to get a share of the crops.

Now if I continue living, fruitful labor is the result, so I do not know which I would prefer.

Labor not for the food which perisheth, but for that food which endureth to everlasting life, which the Son of man will give to you: for him hath God the Father sealed.

Wherefore we labor, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted by him.

Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

My children, with whom I am again in labor until Christ is formed in you—

So, when we could not stand it any longer [Note: Paul's concern for the spiritual well-being of the Thessalonian Christians became unbearable], we [i.e., I, See verse 5] thought it best to be left behind, alone, at Athens [Note: Paul was willing to labor alone at Athens, so he could send his fellow-workers to minister to others. See Acts 17],