23 Bible Verses about Hard Work

I sent you to reap that on which you bestowed no labor. Other men labored, and you have entered into their labor.

And many of the Samaritans of that city believed upon Him because of the saying of the woman, who testified, He told me all that I ever did.

And in this is the saying true, One sows and another reaps.

Yes, I hated all my labor which I had done under the sun; that I must leave it to the man who shall be after me.

that strangers not be filled with your strength, and your labors be in the house of a stranger;

And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men;

Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,

For he who is called a slave in the Lord is a freed man of the Lord. And likewise, he who is called a free man is a slave of Christ.

For now do I persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

And we labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it;

Let him who stole steal no more, but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good, so that he may have something to give to him who needs.

I have shown you all things, that working in this way we ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He Himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

It is right for the laboring farmer to partake first of the fruits.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace which was toward me has not been without fruit, but I labored more abundantly than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

For, brothers, you remember our labor and toil. For laboring night and day in order not to put a burden on any one of you, we preached the gospel of God to you.

saying, These last have worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden and heat of the day.

They will not build, and another live in them; they will not plant, and another eat. For like the days of a tree are the days of My people, and My elect will long enjoy the work of their hands.

In all labor there is gain, but the talk of the lips tends only to poverty.

For it is not that others may have ease, but you trouble;

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable pervert, as also they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction).