Thematic Bible: Labour


Thematic Bible



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. Verse ConceptsAchievementPhysical LabourdissatisfactionUseless EndeavourUnder The SunSuccess And Hard Work

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

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


What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun? Verse ConceptsPhysical LabourToiling In VainUnder The SunQuestioning Life

I have seen everything that is done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind. Verse ConceptsVanityPhysical LabourStraight ThingsUseless EndeavourFrustrationUnder The SunTime PassingSunexploringstrivingFutility Of Worldly Pursuits

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? Verse ConceptsBad SituationsPhysical LabourLife And DeathTragedy

Behold, is it not from the LORD of hosts that peoples labor merely for fire, and nations weary themselves for nothing? Verse ConceptsFutilityPhysical LabourBurning CitiesUseless LabourToiling In VainCaused By God

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

He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. Verse ConceptsGirlsBakersBakingArts And Crafts, Types ofPerfumeBaking Breadcooking

She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands. Verse ConceptsFlaxeagernessWoolIndustryDoing One's Work

She makes linen garments and sells them; she delivers sashes to the merchant. Verse ConceptsLinenMerchantsWomen WorkingMoney Management

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." Verse ConceptsMorningNoonGleaningThose Who Toiled

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

He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. Verse ConceptsGirlsBakersBakingArts And Crafts, Types ofPerfumeBaking Breadcooking

She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands. Verse ConceptsFlaxeagernessWoolIndustryDoing One's Work

She makes linen garments and sells them; she delivers sashes to the merchant. Verse ConceptsLinenMerchantsWomen WorkingMoney Management

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." Verse ConceptsMorningNoonGleaningThose Who Toiled

He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. Verse ConceptsGirlsBakersBakingArts And Crafts, Types ofPerfumeBaking Breadcooking

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." Verse ConceptsBusynessCriticism, against believersImpatienceDiscourtesyActing AloneServing ChristComplaintsServingSiblingsWorryingServing GodDoing The Right ThingServing The Churchluckdistractionscookinghelping

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. Verse ConceptsGoatsAnimals, Types OfSavourinessTwo AnimalsLoving Other Things


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.

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.

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


Greet Mary, who has worked hard for you. Verse ConceptsWomenThose Who Toiled

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. Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesGrindingImprisonmentsKnivesMonotonyMutilationPrisonersTortureCaptivesHeartlessnessHard LaborPrisonsBrassGrinding FoodEyes HarmedBlindingOther BlindingBronze Shackles

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. Verse ConceptsSacred PlacesThe Altar Of The LordMan Providing WaterFirewoodStatutes To This Day

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

And when he had lifted him and brought him to his mother, the child sat on her lap till noon, and then he died. Verse ConceptsMaternal LoveLove, And The WorldPeople Sitting DownDeath Of Unnamed IndividualsDeath Of A ChildDeath Of A Mother

Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time. Verse ConceptsDeborahLeaders, PoliticalRankWomenProphetessNamed WivesWomen Working

The villagers ceased in Israel; they ceased to be until I arose; I, Deborah, arose as a mother in Israel. Verse ConceptsDeborahVillagesSpiritual Mothers

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

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



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. Verse ConceptsAchievementPhysical LabourdissatisfactionUseless EndeavourUnder The SunSuccess And Hard Work

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

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


What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun? Verse ConceptsPhysical LabourToiling In VainUnder The SunQuestioning Life

I have seen everything that is done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind. Verse ConceptsVanityPhysical LabourStraight ThingsUseless EndeavourFrustrationUnder The SunTime PassingSunexploringstrivingFutility Of Worldly Pursuits

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? Verse ConceptsBad SituationsPhysical LabourLife And DeathTragedy

Behold, is it not from the LORD of hosts that peoples labor merely for fire, and nations weary themselves for nothing? Verse ConceptsFutilityPhysical LabourBurning CitiesUseless LabourToiling In VainCaused By God

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