Thematic Bible: Fields of activity
Thematic Bible
Labour » fields of activity » Worldly, sometimes disappointing
But when I considered all the works that my hands had wrought, and all the labours that I had taken therein: Lo, all was vanity and vexation of mind, and nothing of any value under the Sun.
Wherefore do ye lay out your money, for the thing that feedeth not, and spend your labour about the thing that satisfieth you not? But hearken rather unto me, and ye shall eat of the best, and your soul shall have her pleasure in plenteousness.
There is one man, no more but himself alone, having neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of his careful travail, his eyes cannot be satisfied with riches. Yet, doth he not remember himself, and say, "For whom do I take such travail? For whose pleasure do I thus consume away my life?" This is also a vain and miserable thing.
Labor not for the meat which perisheth, but for the meat that endureth unto everlasting life, which meat the son of man shall give unto you. For him hath God the father sealed."
Thus I have considered all the things that come to pass under the Sun, and lo, they are all but vanity and vexation of mind.
This is a miserable plague, that he shall go away even as he came. What helpeth him then, that he hath labored in the wind?
Shall not the LORD of Hosts bring this to pass, that the laborers of the people shall be burnt with a great fire, and that the thing whereupon the people have wearied themselves, shall be lost?
Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Serving the church
Yea, and I beseech thee faithful yokefellow, help the women which laboured with me in the gospel, and with Clement also, and with others, my labour fellows, whose names are in the book of life.
I commend unto you Phoebe our sister, which is a minister of the congregation of Cenchreae,
Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Motherly duties
Moreover, his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from feast to feast when she came up with her husband to offer the offering of the said feast.
And he took him and brought him to his mother. And he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.
Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Acting as judges
And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth judged Israel the same time,
The villages were uninhabited in Israel; were uninhabited until I, Deborah, arose; until I arose a mother in Israel.
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 corn, and a hundred bundles of raisins and two hundred frails of figs, and laded them on asses,
Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » In beautifying the tabernacle
And all the women that were wise hearted to work with their hands, span; and brought the spun work, both of jacinth, scarlet, purple and bysse.
Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Philanthropy
There was at Joppa a certain woman, which was a disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: the same was full of good works and alms deeds, which she did.
Women » fields of activity » In beautifying the tabernacle
And all the women that were wise hearted to work with their hands, span; and brought the spun work, both of jacinth, scarlet, purple and bysse.