A Labour Of Love
This one’s so commonly used you never really wonder where it’s come from. Well, it actually appeared in Thessalonians 1:2, 1:3 and Hebrews 6:10 of the King James Version (KJV) Bible:
“For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister”.
The KJV Bible was written in 1611. Although Shakespeare never uses the phrase ‘a labour of love’, it’s theorised that the translator may have been inspired by Shakespeare’s play titled Love’s Labours Lost in 1588. Shakespeare himself actually used quotes from an earlier version of the Bible called the Geneva translation (1560). So I guess it went both ways.
It’s weird to think that a book which is considered holy and followed to the letter by many people across the globe may have been partly inspired by a play-write.
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