20 Bible Verses about Work Ethic

Faithful is the saying, and of these things I wish thee firmly to testify, that they who have believed in God be careful to be pre-eminent in good works. These are becoming and advantageous to men.

that ye be not slothful, but imitators of those who, by faith and long suffering, are inheriting the promises.

God is a Spirit: and they who worship him, must worship him in spirit and in truth.

Now to him that worketh, the reward is not brought to account as a favour, but as a debt.

They profess to know God; but in works deny him, being abominable and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

An heretical person after a first and second admonition reject;

THEN seeing the multitudes, he went up into the mountain: and seating himself, his disciples came to him:

but hath manifested in his own appointed season his word by the preaching, with which I have been entrusted, according to the command of our Saviour God;

but if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; and in that case would be found fighters against God.

to slander no man, to be inoffensive, gentle, shewing all meekness to all men.

All things indeed are clean to the clean: but to the defiled and to the unbelievers there is nothing clean; but their very mind and conscience are defiled.

But foolish disquisitions, and genealogies, and disputes, and contentions about the law avoid; for they are unprofitable and vain.

laying low proud reasonings, and every high thing which exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and making every thought captive to the obedience of Christ:

And so speaking, he breathed on them, and said, Receive the Holy Ghost:

But of the rest no man had the courage to unite himself with them: though the people extolled them.

But when they heard this, they were cut asunder as with a saw, and took counsel how to make away with them.

One of them, a poet of their own nation, hath said, The Cretans are always liars, wicked beasts, slothful gluttons.

which he poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;

And as to the matters now before you, I say unto you, Abstain from these men, and leave them to themselves: for if this design or this work be of men, it will come to nothing:

But by the hands of the apostles were many signs and miracles done among the people; (and they were all with one accord in the portico of Solomon.