18 Bible Verses about Hard Work

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

Many of the Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the woman's testimony, "He told me all that I ever did."

For here the saying is true, 'One sows and another reaps.'

Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so live in him,

For he who was called in the Lord as a slave is the Lord's freedman; likewise he who was free when called is Christ's slave.

Am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a 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 has been stealing must steal no longer, but rather must labor, doing useful work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with those in need.

In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus 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 was not in vain. No, I worked harder than all of themyet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

For you remember our labor and toil, brethren; we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we preached to you the gospel of God.

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

For I do not mean that others should be eased and you burdened;

He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.