23 Bible Verses about Hard Work

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

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

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

I hated all my toil in which I toil under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who will come after me,

lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of a foreigner,

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

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

For he who was called in the Lord as a slave is a freedman of the Lord. Likewise he who was free when called is a slave of Christ.

For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.

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

Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.

In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"

It is the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.

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

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

They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat; for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.

For I do not mean that others should be eased and you burdened, but that as a matter of fairness

Sweet is the sleep of a laborer, whether he eats little or much, but the full stomach of the rich will not let him sleep.

as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.