Thematic Bible: Labour
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Labour » fields of activity » Worldly, sometimes disappointing
Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.
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Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food.
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one person who has no other, either son or brother, yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eyes are never satisfied with riches, so that he never asks, "For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?" This also is vanity and an unhappy business.
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Do not labor for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal."
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What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?
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I have seen everything that is done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.
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This also is a grievous evil: just as he came, so shall he go, and what gain is there to him who toils for the wind?
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Behold, is it not from the LORD of hosts that peoples labor merely for fire, and nations weary themselves for nothing?
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Labour » Woman's » Manual labour
And every skillful woman spun with her hands, and they all brought what they had spun in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen.
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He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers.
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She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands.
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She makes linen garments and sells them; she delivers sashes to the merchant.
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She said, 'Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves after the reapers.' So she came, and she has continued from early morning until now, except for a short rest."
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Labour » Manual, done by women
And every skillful woman spun with her hands, and they all brought what they had spun in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen.
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He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers.
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She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands.
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She makes linen garments and sells them; she delivers sashes to the merchant.
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She said, 'Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves after the reapers.' So she came, and she has continued from early morning until now, except for a short rest."
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Labour » Woman's » As housekeepers
He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers.
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But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she went up to him and said, "Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me."
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Go to the flock and bring me two good young goats, so that I may prepare from them delicious food for your father, such as he loves.
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She rises while it is yet night and provides food for her household and portions for her maidens.
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Labour » Troubles
And he began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower, and leased it to tenants and went into another country. When the season came, he sent a servant to the tenants to get from them some of the fruit of the vineyard. And they took him and beat him and sent him away empty-handed. read more.
Again he sent to them another servant, and they struck him on the head and treated him shamefully. And he sent another, and him they killed. And so with many others: some they beat, and some they killed. He had still one other, a beloved son. Finally he sent him to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.' But those tenants said to one another, 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.' And they took him and killed him and threw him out of the vineyard. What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenants and give the vineyard to others.
Again he sent to them another servant, and they struck him on the head and treated him shamefully. And he sent another, and him they killed. And so with many others: some they beat, and some they killed. He had still one other, a beloved son. Finally he sent him to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.' But those tenants said to one another, 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.' And they took him and killed him and threw him out of the vineyard. What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenants and give the vineyard to others.
And on receiving it they grumbled at the master of the house, saying, 'These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.'
"Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and leased it to tenants, and went into another country. When the season for fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to get his fruit. And the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and stoned another.
Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Serving the church
Yes, I ask you also, true companion, help these women, who have labored side by side with me in the gospel together with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.
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I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church at Cenchreae,
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Greet Mary, who has worked hard for you.
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Labour » Hard, as punishment
And the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes and brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles. And he ground at the mill in the prison.
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But Joshua made them that day cutters of wood and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of the LORD, to this day, in the place that he should choose.
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Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens. They built for Pharaoh store cities, Pithom and Raamses. But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And the Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel. So they ruthlessly made the people of Israel work as slaves read more.
and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field. In all their work they ruthlessly made them work as slaves.
and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field. In all their work they ruthlessly made them work as slaves.
Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Motherly duties
And his mother used to make for him a little robe and take it to him each year when she went up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
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And when he had lifted him and brought him to his mother, the child sat on her lap till noon, and then he died.
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Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Acting as judges
Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time.
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The villagers ceased in Israel; they ceased to be until I arose; I, Deborah, 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 made haste and took two hundred loaves and two skins of wine and five sheep already prepared and five seahs of parched grain and a hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.
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Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » In beautifying the tabernacle
And every skillful woman spun with her hands, and they all brought what they had spun in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen.
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Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Philanthropy
Now there was in Joppa a disciple named Tabitha, which, translated, means Dorcas. She was full of good works and acts of charity.
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Let us » Labour
Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience.
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Worldly » Labour » Worldly, sometimes disappointing
Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.
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Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food.
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one person who has no other, either son or brother, yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eyes are never satisfied with riches, so that he never asks, "For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?" This also is vanity and an unhappy business.
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Do not labor for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal."
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What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?
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I have seen everything that is done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.
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This also is a grievous evil: just as he came, so shall he go, and what gain is there to him who toils for the wind?
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Behold, is it not from the LORD of hosts that peoples labor merely for fire, and nations weary themselves for nothing?
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