11 Bible Verses about Men Working

For even when we were with you, we laid down this rule for you: "If a man does not choose to work, neither shall he eat."

But if a man makes no provision for those dependent on him, and especially for his own family, he has disowned the faith and is behaving worse than an unbeliever.

A minister then must be a man of irreproachable character, true to his one wife, temperate, sober-minded, well-behaved, hospitable to strangers, and with a gift for teaching;

and to vie with one another in eagerness for peace, every one minding his own business and working with his hands, as we ordered you to do: so as to live worthy lives in relation to outsiders, and not be a burden to any one.

Whatever you are doing, let your hearts be in your work, as a thing done for the Lord and not for men.

Then will two men be in the open country: one will be taken away, and one left behind.

"But give me your judgement. There was a man who had two sons. He came to the elder of them, and said, "'My son, go and work in the vineyard to-day.'

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We must do the works of Him who sent me while there is daylight. Night is coming on, when no one can work.

With right good will, be faithful to your duty as service rendered to the Lord and not to man.

To persons of that sort our injunction--and our command by the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ--is that they are to work quietly and eat their own honestly-earned bread.