29 Bible Verses about Work, Divine And Human

Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor uselessly. Unless the LORD guards the city, its security forces keep watch uselessly.

So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the surface of the whole earth, so that they had to stop building the city.

I am the vine, you are the branches. The one who abides in me while I abide in him produces much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing.

You have led your people like a flock by the hands of Moses and Aaron. An instruction of Asaph

But the Lord told him, "Go, because he's my chosen instrument to carry my name to unbelievers, to their kings, and to the descendants of Israel.

This is also why you pay taxes. For rulers are God's servants faithfully devoting themselves to their work.

Yet God, who comforts those who feel miserable, comforted us by the arrival of Titus,

and I've filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, understanding, knowledge, and all kinds of craftsmanship

But the servant who did things that deserved a beating without knowing it will receive a light beating. Much will be required from everyone to whom much has been given. But even more will be demanded from the one to whom much has been entrusted."

Whoever speaks must speak God's words. Whoever serves must serve with the strength that God supplies, so that in every way God may be glorified through Jesus, the Messiah. Glory and power belong to him forever and ever! Amen.

But remember the LORD your God, because he is the one who gives you the ability to produce wealth, in order to confirm his covenant that he promised by an oath to your ancestors, as is the case today.

May your favor be on us, Lord our God; make our endeavors successful; yes, make our endeavors secure! A Davidic Psalm

For they all were trying to make us afraid by saying, "Their hands will become tired from laboring, so the work won't be completed." "Therefore, LORD, strengthen my hands!"

By ourselves we are not qualified to claim that anything comes from us. Rather, our credentials come from God,

For we are God's co-workers. You are God's farmland and God's building.

Since, then, we are working with God, we plead with you not to accept God's grace in vain.

Then his disciples went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord kept working with them and confirming the message by the signs that accompanied it.

And so, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, not only when I was with you but even more now that I am absent, continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God who is producing in you both the desire and the ability to do what pleases him.

The LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden in order to have him work it and guard it.

"Pay attention! Listen to what I have to say; Pay attention, and hear my speech. Does he who plows for sowing plow all the time? Does he keep on breaking up and harrowing his field? When he has leveled its surface, he scatters caraway and sows cumin, doesn't he? He plants wheat in rows, barley in its designated place, and feed for livestock around its borders, doesn't he?read more.
His God instructs him regarding the correct way, directing him how to plant. For caraway is not threshed with a sharp sledge, nor is a cart wheel rolled over cumin. Instead, caraway is winnowed with a stick, and cumin with a rod. It must be ground; one cannot keep threshing it forever. Even if he drives his cart and horses over it, he cannot crush it. This insight also comes from the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, who is distinguished in practical advice and magnificent in sound wisdom."

So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is significant, but God, who keeps everything growing, is the one who matters.

"Get up, move to Zarephath in Sidon, and stay there. Look! I've commanded a widow to sustain you there."

We want you to know, brothers, about God's grace that was given to the churches of Macedonia. In spite of their terrible ordeal of suffering, their abundant joy and deep poverty have led them to be abundantly generous. I can testify that by their own free will they have given to the utmost of their ability, yes, even beyond their ability. read more.
They begged us earnestly for the privilege of participating in this ministry to the saints. We did not expect that! They gave themselves to the Lord first and then to us, since this was God's will.

"The LORD your God will raise up a prophet like me for you from among your relatives. You must listen to him, because this is what you asked from the LORD your God at Horeb when you were assembled together: "Don't let us hear the voice of the LORD our God again, or even see this great fire otherwise, we will die.' "Then the LORD told me: "What they have suggested is good. read more.
I will raise up a prophet like you from among their relatives, and I will place my words in his mouth so that he may expound everything that I have commanded to them.

and sent a message written by Nathan the prophet to call his name Jedidiah, for the Lord's sake.

But neither he nor his officials nor the people of the land listened to the words of the LORD that were spoken by Jeremiah the prophet.

"By a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was rescued.

Now all this happened to fulfill what was declared by the Lord through the prophet when he said,

because no prophecy ever originated through a human decision. Instead, men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.