Thematic Bible: Fields of activity
Thematic Bible
Labour » fields of activity » Worldly, sometimes disappointing
When I considered all that I had accomplished and what I had labored to achieve, I found everything to be futile and a pursuit of the wind. There was nothing to be gained under the sun.
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and your wages on what does not satisfy?
Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good,
and you will enjoy the choicest of foods.
There is a person without a companion, without even a son or brother, and though there is no end to all his struggles, his eyes are still not content with riches. “So who am I struggling for,” he asks, “and depriving myself from good?” This too is futile and a miserable task.
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that he labors at under the sun?
I have seen all the things that are done under the sun and have found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.
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This too is a sickening tragedy: exactly as he comes, so he will go. What does the one gain who struggles for the wind?
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that the peoples labor only to fuel the fire
and countries exhaust themselves for nothing?
Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Serving the church
Yes, I also ask you, true partner, to help these women who have contended for the gospel at my side, along with Clement and the rest of my coworkers whose names are in the book of life.
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I commend to you our sister Phoebe, who is a servant of the church in Cenchreae.
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Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Motherly duties
Each year his mother made him a little robe and took it to him when she went with her husband to offer the annual sacrifice.
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So he picked him up and took him to his mother. The child sat on her lap until noon and then died.
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Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Acting as judges
Deborah, a woman who was a prophetess and the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time.
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they were deserted in Israel,
until I, Deborah,
a mother in Israel.
Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Meeting an emergency and saving her household
Abigail hurried, taking 200 loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, a bushel of roasted grain, 100 clusters of raisins, and 200 cakes of pressed figs, and loaded them on donkeys.
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Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » In beautifying the tabernacle
Every skilled woman spun yarn with her hands and brought it: blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and fine linen.
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Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Philanthropy
In Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha, which is translated Dorcas. She was always doing good works and acts of charity.
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Women » fields of activity » In beautifying the tabernacle
Every skilled woman spun yarn with her hands and brought it: blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and fine linen.
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