18 Bible Verses about Hard Work

I have sent you to reap that on which you bestowed no labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labors.

And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him, because of the word of the woman who testified, He told me all things that I ever did.

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

And whatever you do, do from the soul, as to the Lord, and not to men;

As, therefore, you received Christ Jesus our Lord, so walk in him,

For he that is in the Lord, having been called when a servant, is the Lord's freedman. Likewise, also, the freeman who has been called, is Christ's servant.

For, do I now seek the favor of men, or of God? or do I strive to please men? If, indeed, I would still please men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

and labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure;

Let him that steals, steal no more: but rather let labor, working with his hands that which is good, that he may have something to give to him that has need.

In all things I have taught you by ex ample, that by thus laboring, you ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus; for he himself said, It is more blessed to give, than to receive.

It is necessary that, the farmer should labor, before he partakes of the fruits.

But, by the grace of God, I am what I am; and his grace, which was bestowed on me, has not been bestowed in vain: but I have labored more abundantly than they all; not I, how ever, but the grace of God which was with me.

For you remember, brethren, our labor and toil; for, laboring night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any one of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.

saying: These last have worked one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day, and the heat.

For I do not intend that there shall be relief to others, and affliction to you; but that, according to equality, your abundance, at the present time, may supply their wants;

as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.