Thematic Bible: Labour
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Labour » fields of activity » Worldly, sometimes disappointing
and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole is vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!
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Why do ye weigh money for that which is not bread? And your labour for that which is not for satiety? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat good, And your soul doth delight itself in fatness.
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There is one, and there is not a second; even son or brother he hath not, and there is no end to all his labour! His eye also is not satisfied with riches, and he saith not, 'For whom am I labouring and bereaving my soul of good?' This also is vanity, it is a sad travail.
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work not for the food that is perishing, but for the food that is remaining to life age-during, which the Son of Man will give to you, for him did the Father seal -- even God.'
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What advantage is to man by all his labour that he laboureth at under the sun?
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I have seen all the works that have been done under the sun, and lo, the whole is vanity and vexation of spirit!
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And this also is a painful evil, just as he came, so he goeth, and what advantage is to him who laboureth for wind?
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Lo, is it not from Jehovah of Hosts And peoples are fatigued for fire, And nations for vanity are weary?
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Labour » Woman's » Manual labour
And every wise-hearted woman hath spun with her hands, and they bring in yarn, the blue, and the purple, the scarlet, and the linen;
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'And your daughters he doth take for perfumers, and for cooks, and for bakers;
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She hath sought wool and flax, And with delight she worketh with her hands.
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Linen garments she hath made, and selleth, And a girdle she hath given to the merchant.
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and she saith, Let me glean, I pray thee -- and I have gathered among the sheaves after the reapers; and she cometh and remaineth since the morning and till now; she sat in the house a little.
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Labour » Manual, done by women
And every wise-hearted woman hath spun with her hands, and they bring in yarn, the blue, and the purple, the scarlet, and the linen;
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'And your daughters he doth take for perfumers, and for cooks, and for bakers;
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She hath sought wool and flax, And with delight she worketh with her hands.
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Linen garments she hath made, and selleth, And a girdle she hath given to the merchant.
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and she saith, Let me glean, I pray thee -- and I have gathered among the sheaves after the reapers; and she cometh and remaineth since the morning and till now; she sat in the house a little.
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Labour » Woman's » As housekeepers
'And your daughters he doth take for perfumers, and for cooks, and for bakers;
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and Martha was distracted about much serving, and having stood by him, she said, 'Sir, dost thou not care that my sister left me alone to serve? say then to her, that she may partake along with me.'
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Go, I pray thee, unto the flock, and take for me from thence two good kids of the goats, and I make them tasteful things for thy father, such as he hath loved;
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Yea, she riseth while yet night, And giveth food to her household, And a portion to her damsels.
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Labour » Troubles
And he began to speak to them in similes: 'A man planted a vineyard, and put a hedge around, and digged an under-wine-vat, and built a tower, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad; and he sent unto the husbandmen at the due time a servant, that from the husbandmen he may receive from the fruit of the vineyard, and they, having taken him, did severely beat him, and did send him away empty. read more.
And again he sent unto them another servant, and at that one having cast stones, they wounded him in the head, and sent away -- dishonoured. 'And again he sent another, and that one they killed; and many others, some beating, and some killing. Having yet therefore one son -- his beloved -- he sent also him unto them last, saying -- They will reverence my son; and those husbandmen said among themselves -- This is the heir, come, we may kill him, and ours shall be the inheritance; and having taken him, they did kill, and cast him forth without the vineyard. 'What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others.
And again he sent unto them another servant, and at that one having cast stones, they wounded him in the head, and sent away -- dishonoured. 'And again he sent another, and that one they killed; and many others, some beating, and some killing. Having yet therefore one son -- his beloved -- he sent also him unto them last, saying -- They will reverence my son; and those husbandmen said among themselves -- This is the heir, come, we may kill him, and ours shall be the inheritance; and having taken him, they did kill, and cast him forth without the vineyard. 'What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others.
and having received it, they were murmuring against the householder, saying, that These, the last, wrought one hour, and thou didst make them equal to us, who were bearing the burden of the day -- and the heat.
'Hear ye another simile: There was a certain man, a householder, who planted a vineyard, and did put a hedge round it, and digged in it a wine-press, and built a tower, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad. 'And when the season of the fruits came nigh, he sent his servants unto the husbandmen, to receive the fruits of it, and the husbandmen having taken his servants, one they scourged, and one they killed, and one they stoned.
Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Serving the church
and I ask also thee, genuine yoke-fellow, be assisting those women who in the good news did strive along with me, with Clement also, and the others, my fellow-workers, whose names are in the book of life.
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And I commend you to Phebe our sister -- being a ministrant of the assembly that is in Cenchrea --
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Salute Mary, who did labour much for us;
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Labour » Hard, as punishment
And the Philistines seize him, and pick out his eyes, and bring him down to Gaza, and bind him with two brazen fetters; and he is grinding in the prison-house.
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and Joshua maketh them on that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the company, and for the altar of Jehovah, unto this day, at the place which He doth choose.
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And they set over it princes of tribute, so as to afflict it with their burdens, and it buildeth store-cities for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses; and as they afflict it, so it multiplieth, and so it breaketh forth, and they are vexed because of the sons of Israel; and the Egyptians cause the sons of Israel to serve with rigour, read more.
and make their lives bitter in hard service, in clay, and in brick, and in every kind of service in the field; all their service in which they have served is with rigour.
and make their lives bitter in hard service, in clay, and in brick, and in every kind of service in the field; all their service in which they have served is with rigour.
Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Motherly duties
and a small upper coat doth his mother make to him, and she hath brought it up to him from time to time, in her coming up with her husband to sacrifice the sacrifice of the time.
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and he beareth him, and bringeth him in unto his mother, and he sitteth on her knees till the noon, and dieth.
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Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Acting as judges
And Deborah, a woman inspired, wife of Lapidoth, she is judging Israel at that time,
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Villages ceased in Israel -- they ceased, Till that I arose -- Deborah, That 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 hasteth, and taketh two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep, prepared, and five measures of roasted corn, and a hundred bunches of raisins, and two hundred bunches of figs, and setteth them on the asses.
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Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » In beautifying the tabernacle
And every wise-hearted woman hath spun with her hands, and they bring in yarn, the blue, and the purple, the scarlet, and the linen;
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Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Philanthropy
And in Joppa there was a certain female disciple, by name Tabitha, (which interpreted, is called Dorcas,) this woman was full of good works and kind acts that she was doing;
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Let us » Labour
May we be diligent, then, to enter into that rest, that no one in the same example of the unbelief may fall,
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Worldly » Labour » Worldly, sometimes disappointing
and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole is vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!
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Why do ye weigh money for that which is not bread? And your labour for that which is not for satiety? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat good, And your soul doth delight itself in fatness.
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There is one, and there is not a second; even son or brother he hath not, and there is no end to all his labour! His eye also is not satisfied with riches, and he saith not, 'For whom am I labouring and bereaving my soul of good?' This also is vanity, it is a sad travail.
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work not for the food that is perishing, but for the food that is remaining to life age-during, which the Son of Man will give to you, for him did the Father seal -- even God.'
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What advantage is to man by all his labour that he laboureth at under the sun?
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I have seen all the works that have been done under the sun, and lo, the whole is vanity and vexation of spirit!
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And this also is a painful evil, just as he came, so he goeth, and what advantage is to him who laboureth for wind?
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Lo, is it not from Jehovah of Hosts And peoples are fatigued for fire, And nations for vanity are weary?
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