20 Bible Verses about Work Ethic

This is a word which ought to believed and observed, and concerning these things I would have thee stedfastly affirm, that they who have believed in God be careful to excel in good works: for these things are good and profitable to men.

that ye would not be sluggish, but imitators of them who through faith and patience are inheriting the promises.

God is a spirit, and they that worship Him, must worship in spirit and truth.

Now to him that worketh the reward is not reckoned as a favor, but as a debt:

They profess to know God, but in works deny Him, being abominable and disobedient, and to every thing that is good void of understanding.

reject therefore such an heretical man, after the first and second admonition; knowing that such a one is perverted,

And seeing the multitudes He went up to a mountain, and when He was set down, His disciples came to Him,

and hath in his own times manifested his word, by the preaching, with which I was intrusted according to the commandment of God our Saviour:

but if it be of God, ye cannot defeat it, least ye be found fighting even against God.

to slander no man, to avoid contention, to be gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.

To the pure indeed all things are pure; but to the polluted and unbelieving nothing is pure; even their mind and conscience is polluted.

But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and strifes and contentions about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain:

destroying false reasonings, and every height that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and captivating every thought to the obedience of Christ.

And when He said this, He breathed upon them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the holy Spirit:

but no other presumed to join himself to them; however the people magnified them.

And when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and took counsel to put them to death.

as said one of themselves, a prophet of their own, "The Cretans are always liars, mischievous beasts, sluggish gluttons."

which He hath plentifully shed upon us, through Jesus Christ our Saviour:

And therefore as to the present affair I advise you to refrain from these men and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nothing;

And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders done among the people: And they all met with one accord in Solomon's portico: