22 Bible Verses about Men Working
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While we were with you, we gave this order: "If anyone doesn't want to work, he shouldn't eat."
If anyone does not take care of his own relatives, especially his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
The LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden in order to have him work it and guard it.
Therefore, an elder must be blameless, the husband of one wife, stable, sensible, respectable, hospitable to strangers, and teachable.
Also, make it your goal to live quietly, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we instructed you, so that you may win the respect of outsiders, and have need of nothing.
Later, Elisha left there to go up to Bethel, and as he was traveling along the road, some insignificant young men came from the city and started mocking him. They told him, "Get on up, baldy! Get on up, baldy!" He looked behind him, took note of the young men, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. Suddenly two female bears emerged from the woods and mauled 42 of the young men.
The lazy person does not roast what he has hunted, but diligence is one's most important possession.
Everything God says is pure; he is a shield for those who take refuge in him. Don't add to his words, or he will rebuke you, and you will be shown to be a liar.
Whatever you do, work at it wholeheartedly as though you were doing it for the Lord and not merely for people.
At that time, two people will be in the field. One will be taken, and one will be left behind.
Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will work for kings, not unimportant people.
"But what do you think? A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, "Son, go and work in the vineyard today.'
"At any rate, send me an individual who is a skilled craftsman in gold, silver, bronze, and iron, as well as in purple, crimson, and blue materials, who knows how to craft engravings, so he may work with the craftsmen whom I have assembled in Judah and Jerusalem, as provided for by my father David.
"He puts a limit to the skill of every person; to delineate all people from what they do.
I must do the work of the one who sent me while it is day. Night is approaching, when no one can work.
Her mother-in-law noticed how much Ruth had gleaned and had brought back from what was left over from her lunch. So her mother-in-law quizzed her, "Where did you glean today? Where, precisely, did you work? May the one who took notice of you be blessed." So Ruth told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked. She said, "The man's name with whom I worked today is Boaz."
For what does a person gain from everything that he accomplishes and from his inner life struggles that he undergoes while working on earth?
We order and encourage such people by the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, to do their work quietly and to earn their own living.
After they entered the city, they had to sit down in the public square because no one would take them into their home for the night. Just then, an old man was coming out of the fields that evening from work. The man was from the mountainous region of Ephraim and had been staying in Gibeah, even though the men of that place were descendants of Benjamin.
You already have plenty of workers, including stonecutters, masons, carpenters, and an innumerable group of artisans who are skilled at working in
