Thematic Bible: Labour
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Labour » fields of activity » Worldly, sometimes disappointing
And I looked upon all my works my hands made, and upon the labor I labored to do, and behold, all vanity and striving of the spirit, and no profit under the sun.
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Wherefore will ye weigh silver without bread? and your labour not for fulness? hearing, hear ye to me, and eat good, and your soul shall delight in fatness.
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There is one, and not a second; also a son and brother not to him: and no end to all his labor; also his eye shall not be satisfied with riches: and for whom do I labor and diminish my soul from good? Also this is vanity, and it is an evil labor.
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Work not for food perishing, but food remaining to eternal life, which the Son of man will give you: for him God the Father sealed.
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What the profit to a man in all the labor he will labor under the sun?
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I saw all the works they did under the sun; and behold, all vanity and striving of the spirit
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And also this an evil making sick, wholly as he came so shall he go: and what to him he shall labor for the wind?
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Behold, is it not from Jehovah of armies, and the peoples shall labor in a sufficiency of fire, and the peoples shall be wearied in a sufficiency of emptiness?
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Labour » Woman's » Manual labour
And every woman wise of heart spun with her hands, and they will bring the winning, the cerulean purple, and the red purple, the double scarlet and the byssus.
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And your daughters he will take for perfumers, and for cooks, and for bakers.
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She sought wool and flax, and she will work in delight with her hands.
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She made the under garment., and she will sell; and she gave a girdle to the Canaanite.
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And she will say, I will gather now; and I collected among the sheaves after the reapers: and she will stand from that time of the morning, and even to this time of her sitting in the house a little
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Labour » Manual, done by women
And every woman wise of heart spun with her hands, and they will bring the winning, the cerulean purple, and the red purple, the double scarlet and the byssus.
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And your daughters he will take for perfumers, and for cooks, and for bakers.
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She sought wool and flax, and she will work in delight with her hands.
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She made the under garment., and she will sell; and she gave a girdle to the Canaanite.
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And she will say, I will gather now; and I collected among the sheaves after the reapers: and she will stand from that time of the morning, and even to this time of her sitting in the house a little
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Labour » Woman's » As housekeepers
And your daughters he will take for perfumers, and for cooks, and for bakers.
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And Martha was perplexed about much service, and having stood before, said, Lord, carest thou not that my sister left me to serve alone ? speak therefore to her that she may lay hold and assist with me.
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Go now to the flocks, and take to me from thence two kids of the she-goats good, and I will make them dainties for thy father, as that he loved.
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She will rise while yet night, and she will give food to her house, and a portion to her girls.
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Labour » Troubles
And be began to speak to them in parables. A man planted a vineyard, and put a fence round, and digged a winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went abroad. And he sent a servant to the husbandmen in time, that he might receive of the husbandmen from the fruit of the vineyard. And they, taking him, stripped, and sent away empty. read more.
And again he sent to them another servant; and having stoned the same they treated in a summary manner, and sent away despised. And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; truly stripping some, and killing some. Yet therefore having one dearly beloved son, and him he sent last to them, saying, That they will be changed by my son. And these husbandmen said with themselves, That this is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be our's. And they having taken him, killed, and cast out of the vineyard. Therefore what will the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the hushandmen, and give the vineyard to others.
And again he sent to them another servant; and having stoned the same they treated in a summary manner, and sent away despised. And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; truly stripping some, and killing some. Yet therefore having one dearly beloved son, and him he sent last to them, saying, That they will be changed by my son. And these husbandmen said with themselves, That this is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be our's. And they having taken him, killed, and cast out of the vineyard. Therefore what will the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the hushandmen, and give the vineyard to others.
And having received, they murmured against the master of the house, Saying, That these last worked one hour, and thou hast made them equal to us, having borne the burden and heat of the day.
Hear another parable: A certain man was master of a house, who planted a vineyard, and put a hedge around it, and digged in it a winepress, and let it out to farmers, and went abroad: And when the time of the fruits drew near, he sent his servants to the farmers, to receive his parts. And the farmers having taken his servants, truly one they stripped, and one they killed, and one they stoned.
Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Serving the church
And I also ask thee, worthy yoke-fellow, aid those women who fought in company with me in the good news, and with Clement, and the rest of my co-workers, whose names in the book of life.
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And I place with you Phebe our sister, being servant of the church in Cenchrea:
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Embrace Mary, who wearied for us.
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Labour » Hard, as punishment
And Philisteim will seize him, and they will bore out his eyes, and will bring him down to Gaza and bind him with fetters of brass, and he will be grinding in the house of bonds.
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And Joshua will give them in that day hewing wood and drawing water for the assembly and for the altar of Jehovah till this day, to the place which he shall choose.
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And they will set over them leaders of the tributes in order to afflict them in their burdens. And they will build cities of stores for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses And as they will afflict them, so they will multiply and will increase. And they will feel disgust from the face of the sons of Israel. And the Egyptians will make the sons of Israel serve by oppression. read more.
And they will embitter their lives by hard work in clay, and in bricks, and in all work in the field: all their work in which they made them serve by oppression.
And they will embitter their lives by hard work in clay, and in bricks, and in all work in the field: all their work in which they made them serve by oppression.
Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Motherly duties
And his mother will make to him a little upper garment, and bring up to him from days to days, in her coming up with her husband to sacrifice the sacrifice of days.
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And he will lift him up and bring him to his mother, and he will lift him up and bring him to his mother, and he will sit upon her knees till noon, and he will die.
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Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Acting as judges
And Deborah, a woman, a prophetess, wife to Lapidoth, she judged Israel in that time.
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The rulers ceased in Israel: they ceased Till I, Deborah, arose: I arose a mother in Israel.
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Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Meeting an emergency and saving her household
And Abigail will hasten and take two hundred of bread, and two flasks of wine, and five sheep done, and five measures of parched grain, and a hundred clusters of dried grapes, and two hundred cakes of figs, and put upon asses.
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Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » In beautifying the tabernacle
And every woman wise of heart spun with her hands, and they will bring the winning, the cerulean purple, and the red purple, the double scarlet and the byssus.
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Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Philanthropy
And in Joppa was a certain disciple by name Tabitha, which interpreted is called Dorcas: she was full of good works and alms which she did.
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Let us » Labour
Therefore we should be earnest to come into that rest, lest any should fall in the same pattern of unbelief.
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Worldly » Labour » Worldly, sometimes disappointing
And I looked upon all my works my hands made, and upon the labor I labored to do, and behold, all vanity and striving of the spirit, and no profit under the sun.
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Wherefore will ye weigh silver without bread? and your labour not for fulness? hearing, hear ye to me, and eat good, and your soul shall delight in fatness.
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There is one, and not a second; also a son and brother not to him: and no end to all his labor; also his eye shall not be satisfied with riches: and for whom do I labor and diminish my soul from good? Also this is vanity, and it is an evil labor.
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Work not for food perishing, but food remaining to eternal life, which the Son of man will give you: for him God the Father sealed.
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What the profit to a man in all the labor he will labor under the sun?
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I saw all the works they did under the sun; and behold, all vanity and striving of the spirit
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And also this an evil making sick, wholly as he came so shall he go: and what to him he shall labor for the wind?
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Behold, is it not from Jehovah of armies, and the peoples shall labor in a sufficiency of fire, and the peoples shall be wearied in a sufficiency of emptiness?
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