23 Bible Verses about Hard Work

I sent you to reap that on which ye have not laboured; others laboured, and ye into their labour have entered.

And from that city many believed in him, of the Samaritans, because of the word of the woman testifying, -- 'He told me all things -- as many as I did.'

for in this the saying is the true one, that one is the sower and another the reaper.

And I have hated all my labour that I labour at under the sun, because I leave it to a man who is after me.

Lest strangers be filled with thy power, And thy labours in the house of a stranger,

and all, whatever ye may do -- out of soul work -- as to the Lord, and not to men,

as, then, ye did receive Christ Jesus the Lord, in him walk ye,

for he who is in the Lord -- having been called a servant -- is the Lord's freedman: in like manner also he the freeman, having been called, is servant of Christ:

for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please -- Christ's servant I should not be.

and labour, working with our own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer;

whoso is stealing let him no more steal, but rather let him labour, working the thing that is good with the hands, that he may have to impart to him having need.

all things I did shew you, that, thus labouring, it behoveth us to partake with the ailing, to be mindful also of the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.'

the labouring husbandman it behoveth first of the fruits to partake;

and by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace that is towards me came not in vain, but more abundantly than they all did I labour, yet not I, but the grace of God that is with me;

for ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail, for, night and day working not to be a burden upon any of you, we did preach to you the good news of God;

that These, the last, wrought one hour, and thou didst make them equal to us, who were bearing the burden of the day -- and the heat.

They do not build, and another inhabit, They do not plant, and another eat, For as the days of a tree are the days of My people, And the work of their hands wear out do My chosen ones.

In all labour there is advantage, And a thing of the lips is only to want.

for not that for others release, and ye pressured, do I speak,

Sweet is the sleep of the labourer whether he eat little or much; and the sufficiency of the wealthy is not suffering him to sleep.

as also in all the epistles, speaking in them concerning these things, among which things are certain hard to be understood, which the untaught and unstable do wrest, as also the other Writings, unto their own destruction.