18 Bible Verses about The Fact Of Toil

And to Adam he said, Because you gave ear to the voice of your wife and took of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take, the earth is cursed on your account; in pain you will get your food from it all your life.

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.

Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment?

So that he made their hearts weighted down with grief; they were falling, and had no helper.

Man goes out to his work, and to his business, till the evening.

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

I sent you to get in grain which you had no hand in planting: other men did that work, and you take the reward.

In blows, in prisons, in attacks, in hard work, in watchings, in going without food;

In hard work and weariness, in frequent watchings, going without food and drink, cold and in need of clothing.

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.

In all things I was an example to you of how, in your lives, you are to give help to the feeble, and keep in memory the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, There is a greater blessing in giving than in getting.

But we make this request to you, my brothers: give attention to those who are working among you, who are over you in the Lord to keep order among you;

Let rulers whose rule is good be honoured twice over, specially those whose work is preaching and teaching.

And this is the purpose of all our work and our fighting, because our hope is in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, and specially of those who have faith.

It is right for the worker in the fields to be the first to take of the fruit.

I have knowledge of your doings, and of your hard work and long waiting, and that you will not put up with evil men, and have put to the test those who say they are Apostles and are not, and have seen that they are false;

And he gave him the name of Noah, saying, Truly, he will give us rest from our trouble and the hard work of our hands, because of the earth which was cursed by God.

Come to me, all you who are troubled and weighted down with care, and I will give you rest.