3 Bible Verses about Employment

For the Scripture says, "You shall not muzzle the ox while threshing," and "The laborer is worthy of his wages."

For ye yourselves know that ye should imitate us; because we were not disorderly among you; nor did we eat any one's bread, gratuitously: but, in labor and toil, working night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you; not because we have not authority, but that we might give ourselves as a model to you, that ye might imitate us.read more.
For, even when we were with you, this we commanded you, "If anyone is not willing to work, neither let him eat." For we hear of some who walk among you in a disorderly manner, who work not at all, but are busybodies. Now such we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that, working with quietness, they eat their own bread.

For ye remember, brethren, our labor and toil; working night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you, we preached to you the Gospel of God. Ye are witnesses, and God, how piously and righteously and unblamably we behaved toward you who believe; as ye know how we dealt with each one of you, as a father with his own children, exhorting you, and encouraging you, and testifying,