I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their labors.”

For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now.

that you also submit to such, and to everyone who works and labors with us.

in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in fastings;

not boasting of things beyond measure, that is, in other men’s labors, but having hope, that as your faith is increased, we shall be greatly enlarged by you in our sphere,

Are they ministers of Christ?—I speak as a fool—I am more: in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often.

Then I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, “Write: ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, and their works follow them.”