Thematic Bible: Fields of activity
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Labour » fields of activity » Worldly, sometimes disappointing
Then I saw all the works which my hands had made, and everything I had been working to do; and I saw that all was to no purpose and desire for wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
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Why do you give your money for what is not bread, and the fruit of your work for what will not give you pleasure? Give ear to me, so that your food may be good, and you may have the best in full measure.
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It is one who is by himself, without a second, and without son or brother; but there is no end to all his work, and he has never enough of wealth. For whom, then, am I working and keeping myself from pleasure? This again is to no purpose, and a bitter work.
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Let your work not be for the food which comes to an end, but for the food which goes on for eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you, for on him has God the Father put his mark.
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What is a man profited by all his work which he does under the sun?
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I have seen all the works which are done under the sun; all is to no purpose, and desire for wind.
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And this again is a great evil, that in all points as he came so will he go; and what profit has he in working for the wind?
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See, is it not the pleasure of the Lord of armies that the peoples are working for the fire and using themselves up for nothing?
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Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Serving the church
And I make request to you, true helper in my work, to see to the needs of those women who took part with me in the good news, with Clement and the rest of my brother-workers whose names are in the book of life.
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It is my desire to say a good word for Phoebe, who is a servant of the church in Cenchreae:
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Give my love to Mary, who gave much care to you.
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Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Motherly duties
And his mother made him a little robe and took it to him every year when she came with her husband for the year's offering.
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And he took him in to his mother, and she took him on her knees and kept him there till the middle of the day, when his life went from him.
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Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Acting as judges
Now Deborah, a woman prophet, the wife of Lapidoth, was judge of Israel at that time.
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Country towns were no more in Israel, *** were no more, till you, Deborah, came up, till you came up as 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 quickly took two hundred cakes of bread and two skins full of wine and five sheep ready for cooking and five measures of dry grain and a hundred parcels of dry grapes and two hundred cakes of figs, and put them on asses.
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Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » In beautifying the tabernacle
And all the women who were expert with their hands, made cloth, and gave the work of their hands, blue and purple and red and the best linen.
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Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Philanthropy
Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, that is, Dorcas: this woman was given to good works and acts of mercy at all times.
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Women » fields of activity » In beautifying the tabernacle
And all the women who were expert with their hands, made cloth, and gave the work of their hands, blue and purple and red and the best linen.
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