23 Bible Verses about Men Working

For even when we were with you we gave you orders, saying, If any man does no work, let him not have food.

If anyone has no care for his family and those in his house, he is false to the faith, and is worse than one who has no faith.

And the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to do work in it and take care of it.

The Bishop, then, is to be a man of good name, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, serious-minded, having respect for order, opening his house freely to guests, a ready teacher;

And that you may take pride in being quiet and doing your business, working with your hands as we gave you orders; That you may be respected by those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

Then from there he went up to Beth-el; and on his way, some little boys came out from the town and made sport of him, crying, Go up, old no-hair! go up, old no-hair! And turning back, he saw them, and put a curse on them in the name of the Lord. And two she-bears came out of the wood and put forty-two of the children to death.

He who is slow in his work does not go in search of food; but the ready worker gets much wealth.

Every word of God is tested: he is a breastplate to those who put their faith in him. Make no addition to his words, or he will make clear your error, and you will be seen to be false.

Whatever you do, do it readily, as to the Lord and not to men;

Then two men will be in the field; one is taken, and one let go;

Have you seen a man who is expert in his business? he will take his place before kings; his place will not be among low persons.

But how does it seem to you? A man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go and do work today in the vine-garden.

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So now send me an expert worker in gold and silver and brass and iron? in purple and red and blue, and in the cutting of all sorts of ornament, to be with the expert workmen who are here in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom my father David got together.

He puts an end to the work of every man, so that all may see his work.

While it is day we have to do the works of him who sent me: the night comes when no work may be done.

And her mother-in-law said to her, Where did you take up the grain today, and where were you working? May a blessing be on him who gave such attention to you. And she gave her mother-in-law an account of where she had been working, and said, The name of the man with whom I was working today is Boaz.

What does a man get for all his work, and for the weight of care with which he has done his work under the sun?

What profit has the worker in the work which he does?

Doing your work readily, as to the Lord, and not to men:

Now to such we give orders and make request in the Lord Jesus, that, working quietly, they get their living.

Now when it was evening they saw an old man coming back from his work in the fields; he was from the hill-country of Ephraim and was living in Gibeah: but the men of the place were Benjamites.

And you have a great number of workmen, cutters and workers of stone and wood, and experts in every sort of work,