Thematic Bible: Fields of activity
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Labour » fields of activity » Worldly, sometimes disappointing
At last I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought and on the labour that I had laboured to do; and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
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Why do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which does not satisfy? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
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It is the man who is alone, without a successor, who has neither son nor brother; yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity and sore travail.
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Labour not for the food which perishes, but for the food which abides unto eternal life, which the Son of man shall give unto you, for him has God the Father sealed.
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What profit does a man have of all his labour which he takes 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 vexation of spirit.
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And this also is a sore evil; that in all points as he came, so shall he go; and what profit has he that has laboured for the wind?
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Is this not of the LORD of the hosts? Therefore the peoples shall labour for the fire, and the Gentiles shall weary themselves in vain.
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Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Serving the church
And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women who laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also and with my other fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life.
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I commend unto you Phebe our sister, who is a servant of the congregation which is at Cenchrea,
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Greet Mary, who has laboured much with us.
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Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Motherly duties
Moreover his mother made him a little coat and brought it to him each year when she came up with her husband to offer the accustomed sacrifice.
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And when he had taken him and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon and then died.
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Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Acting as judges
And a woman judged Israel at that time, Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth.
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The inhabitants of the villages ceased; they had ceased in Israel until I Deborah arose, 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 flour and one hundred bunches 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 spun with their hands and brought that which they had spun: blue or purple or scarlet or 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 alms-deeds which she did.
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Women » fields of activity » In beautifying the tabernacle
And all the women that were wise hearted spun with their hands and brought that which they had spun: blue or purple or scarlet or fine linen.
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