23 Bible Verses about Men Working

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this, that if anyone would not work, neither should he eat.

But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an infidel.

And Jehovah God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.

Then it behooves the overseer to be without reproach, husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, well-ordered, hospitable, apt at teaching,

and that you try earnestly to be quiet and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you, so that you may walk becomingly toward those outside, and that you may lack nothing.

And he went up from there to Bethel. And he was going up in the highway. And little boys came out from the city and mocked him, and said to him, Go up, bald head! Go up, bald head! And he turned behind him and saw them, and declared them vile in the name of Jehovah. And two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two boys of them.

The lazy one does not start after his game, but the wealth of a hard worker is precious.

Every word of God is pure; He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him. Do not add to His Words, lest He reprove you and you be found a liar.

And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men;

Then two shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

Do you see a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before unknown men.

But what do you think? A man had two sons; and he came to the first and said, Son, go work in my vineyard today.

Two shall be in the field, one will be taken, and the other left.

And now send me a man skillful to work in gold, and in silver, and in bronze, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and one who is skillful to engrave with the skillful men who are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father provided.

He seals up the hand of every man, so that all men may know His work.

I must work the works of Him who sent Me, while it is day. Night comes when no man can work.

And her mother-in-law said to her, Where have you gleaned today? And where did you work? Blessed is he who took notice of you. And she told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked, and said, The man's name with whom I worked today is Boaz.

For what has man from all his labor, and from the troubling of his heart, in which he has labored under the sun?

What profit does he have who works in that in which he labors?

with good will doing service as to the Lord and not to men

Now we command and exhort those who are such, by our Lord Jesus Christ, that they work with quietness and eat their own bread.

And behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at evening, who was also from Mount Ephraim. And he lived in Gibeah, but the men of the place were of Benjamin.

And there are many workmen with you, cutters and workers of stone and timber, and all kinds of skillful men for every kind of work.