23 Bible Verses about Hard Work

I have sent you to reap that on which ye have not laboured; others have laboured, and ye have entered into their labours.

But many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him because of the word of the woman who bore witness, He told me all things that I had ever done.

For in this is verified the true saying, It is one who sows and another who reaps.

And I hated all my labour wherewith I had been toiling under the sun, because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.

lest strangers be filled with thy wealth, and the fruits of thy toil come into the house of a stranger;

Whatsoever ye do, labour at it heartily, as doing it to the Lord, and not to men;

As therefore ye have received the Christ, Jesus the Lord, walk in him,

For the bondman that is called in the Lord is the Lord's freedman; in like manner also the freeman being called is Christ's bondman.

For do I now seek to satisfy men or God? or do I seek to please men? If I were yet pleasing men, I were not Christ's bondman.

and labour, working with our own hands. Railed at, we bless; persecuted, we suffer it;

Let the stealer steal no more, but rather let him toil, working what is honest with his hands, that he may have to distribute to him that has need.

I have shewed you all things, that thus labouring we ought to come in aid of the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

The husbandman must labour before partaking of the fruits.

But by God's grace I am what I am; and his grace, which was towards me, has not been vain; but I have laboured more abundantly than they all, but not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

For ye remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and day, not to be chargeable to any one of you, we have preached to you the glad tidings of God.

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

they shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree shall be the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

In all labour there is profit; but the talk of the lips tendeth only to want.

For it is not in order that there may be ease for others, and for you distress,

The sleep of the labourer is sweet, whether he have eaten little or much; but the fulness of the rich doth not suffer him to sleep.

as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; among which some things are hard to be understood, which the untaught and ill-established wrest, as also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.