23 Bible Verses about Men Working

For when we were with you, this we warned you of, that if there were any which would not work, that the same should not eat.

If there be any that provideth not for his own, and namely for them of his household, the same denieth the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

And the LORD God took Adam and put him in the garden of Eden, to dress it and to keep it.

Yea, and a bishop must be faultless, the husband of one wife, sober, discreet, honestly appareled, harborous, apt to teach,

and that ye study to be quiet, and to meddle with your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you: that ye may behave yourselves honestly toward them that are without and that nothing be lacking unto you.

And he went from thence up to Bethel. And as he was going up in the way, there came little lads out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, "Go up, thou bald head! Go up thou baldhead!" And he turned back and looked on them and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came two bears out of the wood and tare forty two of the boys.

A deceitful man shall find no vantage; but he that is content with that he hath, is more worth than gold.

All the words of God are pure and clean, for he is a shield unto all them that put their trust in him. Put thou nothing therefore unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found as a liar.

And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily as though ye did it to the Lord, and not unto men,

Then two shall be in the fields: the one shall be received, and the other shall be refused,

Seest thou not, that they which be diligent in their business stand before kings, and not among the simple people?

"What say ye to this? A certain man had two sons, and came to the elder and said, 'Son, go and work today in my vineyard.'

And they answered, and said to him, "Where Lord?" And he said unto them,

send me now therefore a cunning man to work in gold, silver, brass, iron, scarlet, crimson and Jacinth colour, and that can skill to grave, to be with the cunning men that are with me in Judah and Jerusalem, which David my father did prepare.

He sendeth fear upon every man, that they might know their own works.

I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day. The night cometh, when no man can work.

Then said her mother-in-law unto her, "Where gatheredst thou today? And where wroughtest thou? Blessed be he that knew thee." And she showed her mother-in-law with whom she had wrought and said, "The man's name with whom I wrought today is Boaz."

For what getteth a man of all the labor and travail of his mind, that he taketh under the Sun,

What else hath a man that doth anything, but weariness and labour?

with good will, even as though serving the Lord and not men.

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

But behold, there came an old man from his work, out of the fields, at even - which was also of mount Ephraim, and but a stranger in Gibeah, for the men of the place were of the children of Benjamin.

Moreover, thou hast workmen enough and masons and carpenters to work in stone and timber, and all manner of wise men for whatsoever work it be.