Isaiah 49:4

But I said, “I have labored in vain, I have spent My strength in futility and vanity; yet My vindication is with the LORD, and My reward is with My God.”

Cross References (20)

  • Isaiah 35:4 (5)

    Say to those with anxious hearts: “Be strong, do not fear! Behold, your God will come with vengeance. With divine retrib

  • Galatians 4:11 (4)

    I fear for you, that my efforts for you may have been in vain.

  • 2 Corinthians 12:15 (3)

    And for the sake of your souls, I will most gladly spend my money and myself. If I love you more, will you love me less?

  • Isaiah 65:23 (3)

    They will not labor in vain or bear children doomed to disaster; for they will be a people blessed by the LORD—they and

  • Matthew 23:37 (3)

    O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your chil

  • Ezekiel 3:19 (3)

    But if you warn a wicked man and he does not turn from his wickedness and his wicked way, he will die in his iniquity, b

  • Isaiah 40:10 (3)

    Behold, the Lord GOD comes with might, and His arm establishes His rule. His reward is with Him, and His recompense acco

  • Matthew 17:17 (3)

    “O unbelieving and perverse generation!” Jesus replied. “How long must I remain with you? How long must I put up with yo

  • Isaiah 53:10–12 (3)

    Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will

  • Isaiah 62:11 (3)

    Behold, the LORD has proclaimed to the ends of the earth, “Say to Daughter Zion: See, your Savior comes! Look, His rewar

  • 2 Corinthians 2:15 (3)

    For we are to God the sweet aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing.

  • Leviticus 26:20 (2)

    and your strength will be spent in vain. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not be

  • Philippians 2:9–10 (2)

    Therefore God exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him the name above all names,

  • Psalms 22:22–31 (2)

    I will proclaim Your name to my brothers; I will praise You in the assembly.

  • Romans 10:21 (2)

    But as for Israel he says: “All day long I have held out My hands to a disobedient and obstinate people.”

  • Isaiah 65:2 (2)

    All day long I have held out My hands to an obstinate people who walk in the wrong path, who follow their own imaginatio

  • Hebrews 12:2 (2)

    Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, s

  • Luke 24:26 (2)

    Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and then to enter His glory?”

  • John 1:11 (2)

    He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.

  • John 17:4–5 (2)

    I have glorified You on earth by accomplishing the work You gave Me to do.