7 Bible Verses about Working Hard And Not Being Lazy

Be enthusiastic instead of lazy. Be fervent in your spirit [Note: Some translators take "spirit" here to refer to the "Holy Spirit"], [as you] serve the Lord.

We do not want you people to be [spiritually] slack, but to imitate those who will inherit [God's] promises because of their faith and patience.

[Now] we have many things to say about Melchizedek, but because of your slowness to grasp things, they are hard to explain.

For even when we were with you, we gave you this order: If any person does not [want to] work, he should not [get to] eat.

For we hear that some of you are living in idleness, refusing to work, but [instead] are just being busybodies.

He spoke about these things in all of his letters, which contain some parts that are difficult to understand. [Because of this], ignorant and unstable people twist [his writings], just as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

So, my dearly loved ones, while you are waiting for these things [to happen], do your best to be found at peace with God, pure and blameless in His sight.