18 Bible Verses about Hard Work

I have sent you to reap that on which you have not labored; others have labored and you have entered into their labor.

And many of the Samaritans in that city believed on him, on account of the word of the woman, testifying, He told me all things which I have done.

For in this is the saying true; He that sows is one, and he that reaps is another.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men;

As therefore you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him,

For the servant called in the Lord is the Lord's freeman; in like manner the called freeman is Christ's servant.

For do I now obey man, or God? or do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I could not have been a servant of Christ.

and labor, working with our hands; being reviled we bless, being persecuted we endure,

Let him that has stolen steal no more, but rather let him labor, doing that which is good with his hands, that he may have to give to him that needs.

I have showed you all things, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

The husbandman who labors must first partake of the fruits of the earth.

but by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not in vain, but I labored more abundantly than they all, but not I but the grace of God with me.

For you remember, brothers, our labor and weariness; that working night and day not to be burdensome to any one of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.

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

Not that others may be relieved and you burdened,

as also in all his epistles speaking of these things, in which are some things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest as they also do the other Scriptures to their destruction.