23 Bible Verses about Hard Work

I sent you to get in grain which you had no hand in planting: other men did that work, and you take the reward.

Now a number of the people of that town had faith in him because of the woman's witness: He has been talking to me of everything I ever did.

In this the saying is a true one, One does the planting, and another gets in the grain.

Hate had I for all my work which I had done, because the man who comes after me will have its fruits.

And strange men may be full of your wealth, and the fruit of your work go to the house of others;

Whatever you do, do it readily, as to the Lord and not to men;

As, then, you took Christ Jesus the Lord, so go on in him,

For he who was a servant when he became a Christian is the Lord's free man; and he who was free when he became a Christian is the Lord's servant.

Am I now using arguments to men, or God? or is it my desire to give men pleasure? if I was still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

And with our hands we do the hardest work: when they give us curses we give blessings, when we undergo punishment we take it quietly;

Let him who was a thief be so no longer, but let him do good work with his hands, so that he may have something to give to him who is in need.

In all things I was an example to you of how, in your lives, you are to give help to the feeble, and keep in memory the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, There is a greater blessing in giving than in getting.

It is right for the worker in the fields to be the first to take of the fruit.

But by the grace of God, I am what I am: and his grace which was given to me has not been for nothing; for I did more work than all of them; though not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

For you have the memory, my brothers, of our trouble and care; how, working night and day, so that we might not be a trouble to any of you, we gave you the good news of God.

Saying, These last have done only one hour's work, and you have made them equal to us, who have undergone the hard work of the day and the burning heat.

They will no longer be building for the use of others, or planting for others to have the fruit: for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree, and my loved ones will have joy in full measure in the work of their hands.

In all hard work there is profit, but talk only makes a man poor.

And I am not saying this so that others may get off free, while the weight comes on you:

The sleep of a working man is sweet, if he has little food or much; but to him who is full, sleep will not come.

And as he said in all his letters, which had to do with these things; in which are some hard sayings, so that, like the rest of the holy Writings, they are twisted by those who are uncertain and without knowledge, to the destruction of their souls.