Thematic Bible: Fields of activity
Thematic Bible
Labour » fields of activity » Worldly, sometimes disappointing
Yet when I considered all the effort which I expended and the toil with which I toiled to do, then behold, "Everything [is] vanity and chasing wind! There is nothing profitable under the sun!"
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Why do you weigh out money for [what is] not food, and your labor for {what cannot satisfy}? Listen carefully to me, and eat [what is] good, and let your soul take pleasure in {rich} food.
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Sometimes a man is all alone with no companion; he also has neither son nor brother. Yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eye is not satisfied with wealth. [He laments,] "For whom am I toiling and depriving {myself} of pleasure?" This also [is] vanity--it is an unhappy business!
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Do not work for the food that perishes, but the food that remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has set his seal on this one."
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What does a person gain in all his toil with which he toils under the sun?
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I saw all the works that are done under the sun. Look! Everything [is] vanity and chasing wind.
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This also [is] a grievous illness. Exactly as he came, so he will go. What profit [does] he gain for all his toil for the wind?
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Look! [Is it] not from Yahweh of hosts that people labor for mere fire, and nations exhaust themselves for mere vanity?
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Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Serving the church
Yes, I ask also you, true yokefellow, help them, who struggled along with me in the gospel with both Clement and the rest of my fellow workers whose names [are] in the book of life.
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Now I commend to you Phoebe our sister, who is also a servant of the church in Cenchrea,
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Greet Mary, who {has worked hard} for you.
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Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Motherly duties
His mother used to make for him a small robe and take it to him {year by year} whenever she came up with her husband to offer the {annual sacrifice}.
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So they carried him and brought him to his mother; he sat on her lap until noon and then died.
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Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Acting as judges
Now at that time Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, [was] judging Israel.
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The warriors ceased; they failed to appear in Israel, until I, Deborah, arose; I arose [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 loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five prepared sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred raisin cakes, and two hundred fig cakes, and she put [them] on the donkeys.
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Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » In beautifying the tabernacle
And every woman [who was] skilled of heart with her hands they spun, and they brought yarn--the blue and the purple, the crimson and the fine linen.
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Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Philanthropy
Now in Joppa there was a certain female disciple {named} Tabitha (which translated means "Dorcas"). She was full of good deeds and charitable giving which she was constantly doing.
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Women » fields of activity » In beautifying the tabernacle
And every woman [who was] skilled of heart with her hands they spun, and they brought yarn--the blue and the purple, the crimson and the fine linen.
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