22 Bible Verses about Men Working

For even when we were with you, we used to command this to you: that if anyone does not want to work, neither should he eat.

But if someone does not provide for his own [relatives], and especially the members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

And Yahweh God took the man and set him in the garden of Eden to cultivate it and to keep it.

Therefore the overseer must be irreproachable, the husband of one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, skillful in teaching,

and to aspire to live a quiet life, and to attend to {your own business}, and to work with your hands, just as we commanded you, so that you may live decently toward those outside, and may have need of nothing.

Then he went up from there [to] Bethel; as he [was] going up along the way, young boys came out from the city and mocked at him and said to him, "Go up, baldhead; go up, baldhead!" When he turned around and saw them, he cursed them in the name of Yahweh. Then two bears came out of the forest and mauled forty-two boys among them.

The lazy will not roast his game, but diligence is the precious wealth of a man.

Every word of God [is] flawless; he [is] a shield for him who takes refuge in him. Do not add to his words lest he rebuke you and you be found a liar.

Whatever you do, accomplish [it] from the soul, as to the Lord, and not to people,

Then there will be two men in the field; one will be taken and one left.

A man who is skillful in his work, you shall see: before kings, he will serve; he will not serve before the commoners.

"Now what do you think? A man had two sons. [He] approached the first [and] said, 'Son, go work in the vineyard today.'

So then, send to me skilled men to work with gold, silver, bronze, and iron, and with purple, crimson, and blue fabric, knowledgeable in engraving, with the skilled men who [are] with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father has established.

{he stops all human beings from working} {so that everyone whom he has made may know it}.

It is necessary [for] us to do the deeds of the one who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work!

And her mother-in-law said to her, "Where did you glean {today} and where did you work? May he [who] took notice of you be blessed." And she told her mother-in-law {with whom she had worked} and said, "The name of the man who I worked with today [is] Boaz."

For what does a person receive for all his toil and in the longing of his heart with which he toils under the sun?

What does the worker gain in his toil?

serving with goodwill as to the Lord and not to people,

Now we command and we exhort such people in the Lord Jesus Christ that, working with quietness, they eat their own bread.

Then behold, an old man [was] coming from his work from the field in the evening, and the man [was] from the hill country of Ephraim, and he [was] dwelling as a foreigner in Gibeah. (The people of the place [were] descendants of Benjamin.)

And with you [there is] an abundance of craftsmen: stonecutters, masons, carpenters, and everyone skilled in every [kind of] craftsmanship