23 Bible Verses about Men Working
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For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, If any will not work, neither let him eat.
But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
And Jehovah God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your hands, even as we charged you; that ye may walk becomingly toward them that are without, and may have need of nothing.
And he went up from thence unto Beth-el; and as he was going up by the way, there came forth young lads out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou baldhead; go up, thou baldhead. And he looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in the name of Jehovah. And there came forth two she-bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two lads of them.
The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting; But the precious substance of men is to the diligent.
Every word of God is tried: He is a shield unto them that take refuge in him. Add thou not unto his words, Lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.
Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; He shall not stand before mean men.
But what think ye? A man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to-day in the vineyard.
There shall be two men in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
Now therefore send me a man skilful to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that knoweth how to grave all manner of gravings, to be with the skilful men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide.
He sealeth up the hand of every man, That all men whom he hath made may know it .
We must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
And her mother-in-law said unto her, Where hast thou gleaned to-day? and where hast thou wrought? blessed be he that did take knowledge of thee. And she showed her mother-in-law with whom she had wrought, and said, The man's name with whom I wrought to-day is Boaz.
For what hath a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, wherein he laboreth under the sun?
Now them that are such we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even: now the man was of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he sojourned in Gibeah; but the men of the place were Benjamites.
Moreover there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all men that are skilful in every manner of work:
