19 Bible Verses about The Fact Of Toil

Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’;
Cursed is the ground because of you;
In toil you will eat of it
All the days of your life.

By the sweat of your face
You will eat bread,
Till you return to the ground,
Because from it you were taken;
For you are dust,
And to dust you shall return.”

“Is not man forced to labor on earth,
And are not his days like the days of a hired man?

Therefore He humbled their heart with labor;
They stumbled and there was none to help.

As for the days of our life, they contain seventy years,
Or if due to strength, eighty years,
Yet their pride is but labor and sorrow;
For soon it is gone and we fly away.

Man goes forth to his work
And to his labor until evening.

In all labor there is profit,
But mere talk leads only to poverty.

I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored and you have entered into their labor.”

in beatings, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in hunger,

I have been in labor and hardship, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.

He who steals must steal no longer; but rather he must labor, performing with his own hands what is good, so that he will have something to share with one who has need.

In everything I showed you that by working hard in this manner you must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He Himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

But we request of you, brethren, that you appreciate those who diligently labor among you, and have charge over you in the Lord and give you instruction,

The elders who rule well are to be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching.

For it is for this we labor and strive, because we have fixed our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of believers.

The hard-working farmer ought to be the first to receive his share of the crops.

‘I know your deeds and your toil and perseverance, and that you cannot tolerate evil men, and you put to the test those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and you found them to be false;

Now he called his name Noah, saying, “This one will give us rest from our work and from the toil of our hands arising from the ground which the Lord has cursed.”

“Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.