Isaiah 65:23

God's people will not labor or bear children in vain, for they and their descendants are blessed by the LORD. It matters because it promises that futility and calamity are removed under God's favor.

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• Isa 61:9And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the LORD hath blessed.
• Jer 32:38–39And they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
• Deut 28:3–12Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.
• Ps 115:14–15The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children.
• Acts 2:39For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the LORD our God shall call.
• Isa 55:2Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
• Isa 49:4Then 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.
• Rom 9:7–8Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
• Gen 17:7And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
• Lev 26:3–10If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
• Gen 12:2And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
• Hag 2:19Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.
• Zech 10:8–9I will hiss for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them: and they shall increase as they have increased.
• Hag 1:6Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
• 1 Cor 15:58Therefore, 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.
• Hos 9:11–14As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
• Lev 26:22I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.
• Deut 28:38–42Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.
• Lev 26:20And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.
• Lev 26:29And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
• Rom 4:16Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,
• Mal 3:10Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
• Gal 3:29And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
• Acts 3:25–26Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.

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