7 Bible Verses about Working Hard And Not Being Lazy

Do not be indolent when zeal is required. Be thoroughly warm-hearted, the Lord's own servants,

so that you may not become half-hearted, but be imitators of those who through faith and patient endurance are now heirs to the promises.

Concerning Him we have much to say, and much that it would be difficult to make clear to you, since you have become so dull of apprehension.

For even when we were with you, we laid down this rule for you: "If a man does not choose to work, neither shall he eat."

For we hear that there are some of you who live disorderly lives and are mere idle busybodies.

That is what he says in all his letters, when speaking in them of these things. In those letters there are some statements hard to understand, which ill-taught and unprincipled people pervert, just as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own ruin.

Therefore, dear friends, since you have these expectations, earnestly seek to be found in His presence, free from blemish or reproach, in peace.