Thematic Bible: Labour


Thematic Bible



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. Verse ConceptsAchievementPhysical LabourdissatisfactionUseless EndeavourUnder The SunSuccess And Hard Work

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. Verse ConceptsSpiritual FoodemptinessdissatisfactionPleasurePhysical LabourUnprofitable SinsBeing UnsatisfiedBuying FoodNo FoodPay Attention To God!FinancesMoney Blessingsenergy

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. Verse ConceptsEnjoyment, Lack OfAffluenceDiscontentPhysical LabourBeing UnsatisfiedUseless EndeavourToiling In VainFamily And Friends


What is a man profited by all his work which he does under the sun? Verse ConceptsPhysical LabourToiling In VainUnder The SunQuestioning Life

I have seen all the works which are done under the sun; all is to no purpose, and desire for wind. Verse ConceptsVanityPhysical LabourStraight ThingsUseless EndeavourFrustrationUnder The SunTime PassingSunexploringstrivingFutility Of Worldly Pursuits

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? Verse ConceptsBad SituationsPhysical LabourLife And DeathTragedy

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? Verse ConceptsFutilityPhysical LabourBurning CitiesUseless LabourToiling In VainCaused By God

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. Verse ConceptsLinenSkillSpinning And WeavingRed MaterialBlue ClothPurple ClothSkilled PeopleBlue Purple And ScarletWomen Working

Your daughters he will take to be makers of perfumes and cooks and bread-makers. Verse ConceptsGirlsBakersBakingArts And Crafts, Types ofPerfumeBaking Breadcooking

She gets wool and linen, working at the business of her hands. Verse ConceptsFlaxeagernessWoolIndustryDoing One's Work

She makes linen robes and gets a price for them, and traders take her cloth bands for a price. Verse ConceptsLinenMerchantsWomen WorkingMoney Management

And she said to me, Let me come into the grain-field and take up the grain after the cutters. So she came, and has been here from morning till now, without resting even for a minute. Verse ConceptsMorningNoonGleaningThose Who Toiled

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. Verse ConceptsLinenSkillSpinning And WeavingRed MaterialBlue ClothPurple ClothSkilled PeopleBlue Purple And ScarletWomen Working

Your daughters he will take to be makers of perfumes and cooks and bread-makers. Verse ConceptsGirlsBakersBakingArts And Crafts, Types ofPerfumeBaking Breadcooking

She gets wool and linen, working at the business of her hands. Verse ConceptsFlaxeagernessWoolIndustryDoing One's Work

She makes linen robes and gets a price for them, and traders take her cloth bands for a price. Verse ConceptsLinenMerchantsWomen WorkingMoney Management

And she said to me, Let me come into the grain-field and take up the grain after the cutters. So she came, and has been here from morning till now, without resting even for a minute. Verse ConceptsMorningNoonGleaningThose Who Toiled

Your daughters he will take to be makers of perfumes and cooks and bread-makers. Verse ConceptsGirlsBakersBakingArts And Crafts, Types ofPerfumeBaking Breadcooking

But Martha had her hands full of the work of the house, and she came to him and said, Lord, is it nothing to you that my sister has let me do all the work? Say to her that she is to give me some help. Verse ConceptsBusynessCriticism, against believersImpatienceDiscourtesyActing AloneServing ChristComplaintsServingSiblingsWorryingServing GodDoing The Right ThingServing The Churchluckdistractionscookinghelping

Go to the flock and get me two fat young goats; and I will make of them a meal to your father's taste: Verse ConceptsGoatsAnimals, Types OfSavourinessTwo AnimalsLoving Other Things


And he gave them teaching in the form of stories. A man had a vine-garden planted, and put a wall about it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and put up a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country. And when the time came, he sent a servant to get from the workmen some of the fruit of the garden. And they took him, and gave him blows, and sent him away with nothing. read more.
And again he sent to them another servant; and they gave him wounds on the head, and were very cruel to him. And he sent another; and they put him to death: and a number of others, whipping some, and putting some to death. He still had one, a dearly loved son: he sent him last to them, saying, They will have respect for my son. But those workmen said among themselves, This is he who will one day be the owner of the property; come, let us put him to death, and the heritage will be ours. And they took him and put him to death, pushing his body out of the garden. What then will the master of the garden do? He will come and put the workmen to death, and will give the garden into the hands of others.

And when they got it, they made a protest against the master of the house, Saying, These last have done only one hour's work, and you have made them equal to us, who have undergone the hard work of the day and the burning heat.

Give ear to another story. A master of a house made a vine garden, and put a wall round it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and made a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country. And when the time for the fruit came near, he sent his servants to the workmen, to get the fruit. And the workmen made an attack on his servants, giving blows to one, putting another to death, and stoning another.

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. Verse ConceptsFellowship, In Christian ServiceAliancesBook of lifeHelpfulnessLoyaltyYokesWhat Heaven Will Be LikePeople HelpingUnconditional LoveHelping Those In Needpartnership


Give my love to Mary, who gave much care to you. Verse ConceptsWomenThose Who Toiled

So the Philistines took him and put out his eyes; then they took him down to Gaza, and, chaining him with bands of brass, put him to work crushing grain in the prison-house. Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesGrindingImprisonmentsKnivesMonotonyMutilationPrisonersTortureCaptivesHeartlessnessHard LaborPrisonsBrassGrinding FoodEyes HarmedBlindingOther BlindingBronze Shackles

And that day Joshua made them servants, cutting wood and getting water for the people and for the altar of the Lord, in the place marked out by him, to this day. Verse ConceptsSacred PlacesThe Altar Of The LordMan Providing WaterFirewoodStatutes To This Day

So they put overseers of forced work over them, in order to make their strength less by the weight of their work. And they made store-towns for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses. But the more cruel they were to them, the more their number increased, till all the land was full of them. And the children of Israel were hated by the Egyptians. And they gave the children of Israel even harder work to do: read more.
And made their lives bitter with hard work, making building-material and bricks, and doing all sorts of work in the fields under the hardest conditions.

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. Verse ConceptsGesturesFaithfulness, In Human RelationshipsMaternal LoveChildren, needs ofLove, And The WorldRobesDressPeople Giving ClothesEvery Yearmoms

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. Verse ConceptsMaternal LoveLove, And The WorldPeople Sitting DownDeath Of Unnamed IndividualsDeath Of A ChildDeath Of A Mother

Now Deborah, a woman prophet, the wife of Lapidoth, was judge of Israel at that time. Verse ConceptsDeborahLeaders, PoliticalRankWomenProphetessNamed WivesWomen Working

Country towns were no more in Israel, *** were no more, till you, Deborah, came up, till you came up as a mother in Israel. Verse ConceptsDeborahVillagesSpiritual Mothers

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. Verse ConceptsFoodFig treeGrainRaisinsSheepWeights And Measures, DryFigsOne HundredThe Number Two HundredDried FruitQuantities Of WineHasty ActionOther Volume Measures

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. Verse ConceptsLinenSkillSpinning And WeavingRed MaterialBlue ClothPurple ClothSkilled PeopleBlue Purple And ScarletWomen Working


Because of this, let us have a strong desire to come into that rest, and let no one go after the example of those who went against God's orders. Verse ConceptsExamples, Purpose OfExamples, BadeagernessHolidayRest, EternalUnbelief, Nature And Effects OfUnbelief, Results Of Being GuiltyEntering LifeeffortUnbelief Toward God

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. Verse ConceptsAchievementPhysical LabourdissatisfactionUseless EndeavourUnder The SunSuccess And Hard Work

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. Verse ConceptsSpiritual FoodemptinessdissatisfactionPleasurePhysical LabourUnprofitable SinsBeing UnsatisfiedBuying FoodNo FoodPay Attention To God!FinancesMoney Blessingsenergy

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. Verse ConceptsEnjoyment, Lack OfAffluenceDiscontentPhysical LabourBeing UnsatisfiedUseless EndeavourToiling In VainFamily And Friends


What is a man profited by all his work which he does under the sun? Verse ConceptsPhysical LabourToiling In VainUnder The SunQuestioning Life

I have seen all the works which are done under the sun; all is to no purpose, and desire for wind. Verse ConceptsVanityPhysical LabourStraight ThingsUseless EndeavourFrustrationUnder The SunTime PassingSunexploringstrivingFutility Of Worldly Pursuits

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? Verse ConceptsBad SituationsPhysical LabourLife And DeathTragedy

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? Verse ConceptsFutilityPhysical LabourBurning CitiesUseless LabourToiling In VainCaused By God

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