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.

Cross-references · 24

• Isa 61:9Their offspring will be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples. All who see them will acknowledge them, that they are the offspring which Yahweh has blessed.”
• Jer 32:38–39and they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
• Deut 28:3–12You shall be blessed in the city, and you shall be blessed in the field.
• Ps 115:14–15May Yahweh increase you more and more, you and your children.
• Acts 2:39For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”
• Isa 55:2Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.
• Isa 49:4But I said, “I have labored in vain. I have spent my strength in vain for nothing; yet surely the justice due to me is with Yahweh, and my reward with my God.”
• Rom 9:7–8Neither, because they are Abraham’s offspring, are they all children. But, “your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac.”
• Gen 17:7I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.
• Lev 26:3–10“‘If you walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
• Gen 12:2I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.
• Hag 2:19Is the seed yet in the barn? Yes, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree haven’t produced. From today I will bless you.’”
• Zech 10:8–9I will signal for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them; and they will increase as they have increased.
• Hag 1:6You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.”
• 1 Cor 15:58Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
• Hos 9:11–14As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, no one with child, and no conception.
• Lev 26:22I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number. Your roads will become desolate.
• Deut 28:38–42You will carry much seed out into the field, and will gather little in; for the locust will consume it.
• Lev 26:20Your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won’t yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.
• Lev 26:29You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.
• Rom 4:16For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the offspring, 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 the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be room enough for.
• Gal 3:29If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.
• Acts 3:25–26You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘In your offspring will all the families of the earth be blessed.’

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