23 Bible Verses about Men Working

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: "If anyone will not work, neither let him eat."

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

The LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you; that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, "Go up, you baldy. Go up, you baldhead." He looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. Two female bears came out of the woods, and mauled forty-two of those youths.

The slothful man doesn't roast his game, but the possessions of diligent men are prized.

"Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him. Do not add to his words, lest he reprove you, and you be found a liar.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

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

Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings. He won't serve obscure men.

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

37 They, answering, asked him, "Where, Lord?" He said to them, "Where the body is, there will the vultures also be gathered together."

"Now therefore send me a man skillful to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and who knows how to engrave engravings, to be 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, that all men whom he has made may know it.

We must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

Her mother-in-law said to her, "Where have you gleaned today? And where have you worked? Blessed be he who noticed you." She showed 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 a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors under the sun?

What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?

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

Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

Behold, there came an old man from his work out in the field at evening. Now the man was of the hill country of Ephraim, and he was residing in Gibeah; but the men of the place were Benjamites.

There are also workmen with you in abundance, cutters and workers of stone and timber, and all kinds of men who are skillful in every kind of work: