Caring for someone you love is its own kind of labor, often invisible to everyone but you. These verses see it.
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“Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not.”
2 Corinthians 4:1 (KJV)
“And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.”
Galatians 6:9 (KJV)“He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.”
Isaiah 40:29 (KJV)Caregiving rarely gets applause in the moment — it's quiet, repeated, often unseen work. 2 Corinthians 4:1 calls this kind of labor a ministry, not a burden to apologize for being tired from. Fainting isn't a moral failure here; it's a real risk this verse takes seriously, and answers with mercy, not guilt, for the exhausted.