23 Bible Verses about Hard Work

I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Other men labored and you entered into their labors.

Many Samaritans of that city put faith (believed) in him because of what the woman said: He told me everything I have ever done.

That saying is true. One sows and another reaps.

I hated all the work I had done under the sun, because I would leave it behind for the man who comes after me.

Strangers will be filled with your financial strength. Strangers will benefit from your hard work.

Whatever you do, work at it without reservation, as to God, and not to men.

You have accepted Christ Jesus as Lord. Now walk (live) in union with him.

He who is called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lord's freeman. Likewise also he who is called, being free, is Christ's slave.

Do I now seek the favor of men, or of God? Am I striving to please men? If I were still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

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

He that steals must steal no more. Let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have something to give to someone in need.

In all things I gave you an example. You by laboring should help the weak. Remember the words of the Lord Jesus: It is more blessed to give than to receive.

The hard-working farmer should be first to receive his share of the crops.

By the divine influence of God I am what I am. His grace was not given to me in vain for I labored more than all of them. Yet it was not I. It was the divine influence and favor of God in me.

You may remember, brothers, our labor and hardship. We worked day and night that we would not burden any of you when we preached the good news of God to you.

They said: 'The last ones have done only one hour's work. You have made them equal to us. We have undergone the hard work of the day and the burning heat.'

No longer will they build houses and others live in them, or plant and others eat. For as the days of a tree, so will be the days of my people. My chosen ones will long enjoy the works of their hands.

In all labor there is profit: but idle chatter leads only to destitution.

I do not say this for the ease of others and for your affliction

The sleep of the workingman is pleasant, whether he eats little or much. However the full stomach of the rich man does not allow him to sleep.

He spoke about these things in his letters. Some things are hard to understand. The untaught and unstable distort them as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.