33 Bible Verses about working

While it is still daytime we must perform the acts of God, who sent me. Nighttime is coming, when no one can act.

And there are a variety of [Christian] activities, but the same God provides the power for everyone to do all of them [i.e., it is God who empowers every person who has a gift].

In whatever you do, work wholeheartedly, as though it were for the Lord and not [just] for people,

but I see a different law [at work] in my body, waging [spiritual] warfare against the law in my mind. It brings me into captivity to the law of sin in my body.

This is the reason that I work hard and struggle also, using God's mighty power which is at work in me.

And we know that God works out everything for the good of those who love Him and are called [to serve Him] in harmony with His purpose [for them].

for it is God who is at work in you, both to motivate the desire and to carry out what pleases Him.

[the quality of] each person's work will become evident [i.e., for what is it made of]. For the [judgment] day will expose his workmanship. And it will be revealed by the fire [of judgment], which will test the quality of a person's workmanship [i.e., the faithfulness of his converts].

I am confident of this very thing, that God, who began something good among you, will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ's [return].

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.

That slave will be happy when his master returns to find him doing his job [well].

But Jesus said to them, "My Father is continuing to work and I am working."

equip you with every good deed for doing God's will. [May He] work in us [to accomplish] what is very pleasing in His sight through [the power of] Jesus Christ. May there be praise to Him forever and ever. May it be so.

Then the people said to Jesus, "What must we do in order to perform the deeds that God requires?"

Do you not know that those who perform service in the Temple [are permitted to] eat food from the Temple? And those who serve at the Altar receive a share of what is sacrificed on the Altar?

He went to the second son and said the same thing. That son replied, '[Yes], sir, I will,' [but] then did not go.

For you brothers remember how we labored and toiled, working hard night and day, so that we would not burden any of you [while] we proclaimed to you the Gospel of God.

saying, 'These men [you hired] last have worked only one hour and you gave them wages equal to ours when we carried the heaviest load of the day's work and [put up with] the scorching heat [all day long].'

For we are all fellow-workers in God's service; you people are God's farm land; [you are] God's building.

for your sharing [with me] in [carrying on] the work of the Gospel from the first day [I left there] until now. [See 4:14-16].

I know about your deeds, your love, your faith, your service and your endurance, and that your most recent deeds are more numerous than when you first began [your Christian lives].

In the same way, if [your] faith does not have [good] deeds [to accompany it], it is dead, [because it stands] alone.

In that same way, you should allow your light [i.e., influence] to shine in front of people, so that they will see your good deeds and [be led to] honor your Father in heaven.

Now wages are not considered a gift if the person has to work for them, but [rather] an obligation [of his employer].