I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored and you have entered into their labor.”

From that city many of the Samaritans believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me all the things that I have done.”

For in this case the saying is true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’

Thus I hated all the fruit of my labor for which I had labored under the sun, for I must leave it to the man who will come after me.

And strangers will be filled with your strength
And your hard-earned goods will go to the house of an alien;

Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men,

Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,

For he who was called in the Lord while a slave, is the Lord’s freedman; likewise he who was called while free, is Christ’s slave.

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a bond-servant of Christ.

and we toil, working with our own hands; when we are reviled, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure;

He who steals must steal no longer; but rather he must labor, performing with his own hands what is good, so that he will have something to share with one who has need.

In everything I showed you that by working hard in this manner you must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He Himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

The hard-working farmer ought to be the first to receive his share of the crops.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me did not prove vain; but I labored even more than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

For you recall, brethren, our labor and hardship, how working night and day so as not to be a burden to any of you, we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

saying, ‘These last men have worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden and the scorching heat of the day.’

“They will not build and another inhabit,
They will not plant and another eat;
For as the lifetime of a tree, so will be the days of My people,
And My chosen ones will wear out the work of their hands.

In all labor there is profit,
But mere talk leads only to poverty.

For this is not for the ease of others and for your affliction, but by way of equality—

The sleep of the working man is pleasant, whether he eats little or much; but the full stomach of the rich man does not allow him to sleep.

as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.