Thematic Bible: Fields of activity
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Labour » fields of activity » Worldly, sometimes disappointing
Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
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Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
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There is one that is alone, and he hath not a second; yea, he hath neither son nor brother; yet is there no end of all his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with riches. For whom then,'saith he , do I labor, and deprive my soul of good? This also is vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
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Work not for the food which perisheth, but for the food which abideth unto eternal life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him the Father, even God, hath sealed.
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What profit hath man of all his labor wherein he laboreth under the sun?
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I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.
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And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that he laboreth for the wind?
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Behold, is it not of Jehovah of hosts that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?
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Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Serving the church
Yea, I beseech thee also, true yokefellow, help these women, for they labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow-workers, whose names are in the book of life.
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I commend unto you Phoebe our sister, who is a servant of the church that is at Cenchreae:
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Salute Mary, who bestowed much labor on you.
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Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Motherly duties
Moreover his mother made him a little robe, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
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And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.
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Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Acting as judges
Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, she judged Israel at that time.
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The rulers ceased in Israel, they ceased, Until that I Deborah arose, That I arose a mother in Israel.
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Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Meeting an emergency and saving her household
Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched grain, and a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.
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Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » In beautifying the tabernacle
And all the women that were wise-hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, the blue, and the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen.
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Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Philanthropy
Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did.
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Women » fields of activity » In beautifying the tabernacle
And all the women that were wise-hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, the blue, and the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen.
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