17 Bible Verses about Physical Labour

And the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to do work in it and take care of it.

With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.

On six days work may be done; but the seventh day is a special day of rest, a time for worship; you may do no sort of work: it is a Sabbath to the Lord wherever you may be living.

Wealth quickly got will become less; but he who gets a store by the work of his hands will have it increased.

In all hard work there is profit, but talk only makes a man poor.

Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.

Let him who was a thief be so no longer, but let him do good work with his hands, so that he may have something to give to him who is in need.

And that you may take pride in being quiet and doing your business, working with your hands as we gave you orders;

Now to such we give orders and make request in the Lord Jesus, that, working quietly, they get their living.

What is a man profited by all his work which he does under the sun?

I have seen all the works which are done under the sun; all is to no purpose, and desire for wind.

Then I saw all the works which my hands had made, and everything I had been working to do; and I saw that all was to no purpose and desire for wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

It is one who is by himself, without a second, and without son or brother; but there is no end to all his work, and he has never enough of wealth. For whom, then, am I working and keeping myself from pleasure? This again is to no purpose, and a bitter work.

And this again is a great evil, that in all points as he came so will he go; and what profit has he in working for the wind?

Why do you give your money for what is not bread, and the fruit of your work for what will not give you pleasure? Give ear to me, so that your food may be good, and you may have the best in full measure.

See, is it not the pleasure of the Lord of armies that the peoples are working for the fire and using themselves up for nothing?

Let your work not be for the food which comes to an end, but for the food which goes on for eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you, for on him has God the Father put his mark.