29 Bible Verses about Work, Divine And Human

([Psalm of Solomon]) If Jehovah does not build the house, it is vain for the builders to work on it. If Jehovah does not protect a city, it is vain for the guard to stay alert.

Jehovah scattered them from there over all the earth. They stopped building the city.

I am the vine and you are the branches. He that remains with me, and I with him, the same bears much fruit. You can do nothing apart from me.

You led your people like a flock, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

The Lord said to him: Be on your way. This man is a chosen vessel to bear my name to the people of the nations, and kings and the children of Israel.

That is why you pay taxes. They are God's ministers continually serving this very purpose.

Nevertheless he who comforts the lowly, even God, comforted us by the coming of Titus.

I filled him with the Spirit of God (my power). I gave him understanding, skill, and ability for every kind of artistic work.

He who did not know and did things unacceptable will receive a lesser punishment. To whom much is given, much will be required and to whom they commit much they will demand even more.

If any man speaks, speak as it were utterances of God. If any man ministers, minister with the strength which God supplies! May God be glorified in all things through Jesus Christ. The glory and dominion belong to God forever and ever. Amen.

Remember that Jehovah your God gives you the strength to make a living. That is how he keeps the promise he made to your fathers.

Let the kindness of Jehovah our God be with us. Confirm for us the work of our hands. Yes, confirm the work of our hands.

They hoped to put fear in us, saying: Their hands will become feeble and give up the work so that it may not get done. But now, O God, make my hands strong.

We are not adequate by ourselves to account for anything. Our adequacy is from God.

For we are fellow workers together with God. You are God's field under cultivation. You are God's building.

Working together with him we plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain (to no purpose) (in emptiness).

not in some older manuscripts) After he had risen early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene. She was the one who had the seven demons that he cast out.

My beloved, you have always obeyed, not just in my presence, but now much more in my absence. Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. It is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

Jehovah God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.

Give ear and hear my voice. Listen and hear my speech. Does the plowman keep plowing all day in order to sow seed? Does he keep turning his soil and breaking the clods? When he has leveled its surface, does he not sow the black cummin and scatter the cummin, plant the wheat in rows, the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in its place?read more.
He instructs him in right judgment and his God teaches him. The black cummin is not threshed with a threshing sledge, nor is a cartwheel rolled over the cummin. But the black cummin is beaten out with a stick, and the cummin with a rod. Bread flour must be ground. Therefore he does not thresh it forever, break it with his cartwheel, or crush it with his horsemen. This also comes from Jehovah of Hosts. He is wonderful in counsel and excellent in guidance.

Neither he that plants and neither he that waters is anything; but God gives the increase.

Go now to Zarephath, in Zidon, and live there. I have given orders to a widow woman there to see that you have food.

We make known to you brothers the grace of God that has been given to the congregations of Macedonia. Out of severe affliction they have an abundance of joy and their deep poverty abounds in the riches of their generosity. For according to their ability, I bear witness, yes and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord.read more.
They were very urgent in their concern for this grace and the fellowship in the ministering to the holy ones. This is not as we hoped. First they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us by the will of God.

Jehovah your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your fellow Israelites. Listen to him! This is according to all that you asked of Jehovah your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly. You said: Let me not hear again the voice of Jehovah my God. Do not let me see this great fire anymore, or I will die. Jehovah said to me: 'They have spoken well.read more.
I will raise up a prophet from among their countrymen like you. I will put my words in his mouth. He will speak to them all that I command him.

He sent a message through the prophet Nathan to name the baby Jedidiah (Jehovah's Beloved).

Zedekiah, his administrators, and the common people did not listen to what Jehovah spoke through the prophet Jeremiah.

Jehovah used a prophet to bring the people of Israel out of Egypt. He used a prophet to take care of them.

All this happened so that what God spoke through the prophet came true:

For no prophecy ever came by the will of man! Men spoke from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit.