40 Bible Verses about craftsmanship

And I have given him the spirit of God and made him wise and full of knowledge and expert in every sort of handwork,

To them he has given knowledge of all the arts of the handworker, of the designer, and the expert workman; of the maker of needlework in blue and purple and red and the best linen, and of the maker of cloth; in all the arts of the designer and the trained workman they are expert.

And he has made him full of the spirit of God, in all wisdom and knowledge and art of every sort;

To do all sorts of delicate work in gold and silver and brass;

As an expert designer of beautiful things, working in gold and silver and brass;

And the Lord gave me a vision of four metal-workers.

See, I have made the iron-worker, blowing on the burning coals, and making the instrument of war by his work; and I have made the waster for destruction.

So the metal-worker put heart into the gold-worker, and he who was hammering the metal smooth said kind words to the iron-worker, saying of the plate, It is ready: and he put it together with nails, so that there might be no slipping.

Give orders to all the wise-hearted workmen, whom I have made full of the spirit of wisdom, to make robes for Aaron, so that he may be made holy as my priest.

Then I was by his side, as a master workman: and I was his delight from day to day, playing before him at all times;

And let every wise-hearted man among you come and make whatever has been ordered by the Lord;

Then the wise men, who were doing all the work of the holy place, came from their work;

Trained in the cutting of stones and the ornamenting of wood and in every sort of handwork.

So now send me an expert worker in gold and silver and brass and iron? in purple and red and blue, and in the cutting of all sorts of ornament, to be with the expert workmen who are here in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom my father David got together.

In cutting stones for framing, and to do every form of woodwork.

Lod and Ono, the valley of expert workers.

And now I am sending you a wise and expert man, Huram who is as my father,

I have made selection of Bezalel, the son of Uri, by name, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah:

And the voice of players and makers of music will never again be sounding in you: and no worker, expert in art, will ever again be living in you; and there will be no sound of the crushing of grain any more at all in you;

And I have made selection of Oholiab with him, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the hearts of all who are wise I have put the knowledge to make whatever I have given you orders to have made;

So let Bezalel and Oholiab get to work, with every wise-hearted man to whom the Lord has given wisdom and knowledge, to do whatever is necessary for the ordering of the holy place, as the Lord has given orders.

Then I said, What have these come to do? And he said, These are the horns which sent Judah in flight, and kept him from lifting up his head: but these men have come to send fear on them and to put down the nations who are lifting up their horns against the land of Judah to send it in flight.

The workman makes an image, and the gold-worker puts gold plates over it, and makes silver bands for it.

The heavens are sounding the glory of God; the arch of the sky makes clear the work of his hands.

And you have a great number of workmen, cutters and workers of stone and wood, and experts in every sort of work,

(After Jeconiah the king and the queen-mother and the unsexed servants and the rulers of Judah and Jerusalem and the expert workmen and the metal-workers had gone away from Jerusalem;)

In gold and silver and brass and iron more than may be numbered. Up! then, and to work; and may the Lord be with you.

The captain of fifty, and the man of high position, and the wise guide, and the wonder-worker, and he who makes use of secret powers.

For by his act we were given existence in Christ Jesus to do those good works which God before made ready for us so that we might do them.

Truly, all those who make use of secret arts will be put to shame, and their words of power are only words of men: let them all come forward together; they will all be in fear and be put to shame.

Gold for the gold things, and silver for the silver things, and for every sort of work to be done by the expert workmen. Who then will come forward, offering himself this day for the Lord's work?

Silver hammered into plates is sent from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the expert workman and of the hands of the gold-worker; blue and purple is their clothing, all the work of expert men.

The wise workman makes selection of the mulberry-tree of the offering, a wood which will not become soft; so that the image may be fixed to it and not be moved.

And now their sins are increased; they have made themselves a metal image, false gods from their silver, after their designs, all of them the work of the metal-workers; they say of them, Let them give offerings, let men give kisses to the oxen.

Then all the expert workmen among them made the House with its ten curtains; of the best linen, blue and purple and red, they made them, with winged ones worked by expert designers.

And Meonothai was the father of Ophrah; and Seraiah was the father of Joab, the father of Ge-harashim; they were expert workmen.

The form of the wheels and their work was like a beryl; the four of them had the same form and design, and they were like a wheel inside a wheel.

Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did the work of cutting them, and put edges on them, and got the wood and the stone ready for the building of the house.

Have you seen a man who is expert in his business? he will take his place before kings; his place will not be among low persons.

He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass; he was full of wisdom and knowledge and an expert worker in brass. He came to King Solomon and did all his work for him.