Labor in vain

1. Job 9: 29
   
   

   29 If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
2. Job 39: 16
   
   

   16 She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear;
3. Ps. 127: 1
   
   

   1 Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
   

   • Isaiah 49:4

     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.
     
4. Isa. 65: 23
   
   

   23 They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord, and their offspring with them.
5. Jer. 51: 58
   
   

   58 Thus saith the Lord of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.
6. 1 Cor. 15: 58
   
   

   58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
7. Gal. 4: 11
   
   

   11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
8. 1 Thes. 3: 5
   
   

   5 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.
9. 1 Ne. 21: 4
   
   

   4 Then I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for naught and in vain; surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God.
10. Enos 1: 20
    
    

    20 And I bear record that the people of Nephi did seek diligently to restore the Lamanites unto the true faith in God. But our labors were vain; their hatred was fixed, and they were led by their evil nature that they became wild, and ferocious, and a blood-thirsty people, full of idolatry and filthiness; feeding upon beasts of prey; dwelling in tents, and wandering about in the wilderness with a short skin girdle about their loins and their heads shaven; and their skill was in the bow, and in the cimeter, and the ax. And many of them did eat nothing save it was raw meat; and they were continually seeking to destroy us.