18 Bible Verses about Hard Work

I have sent you to reap that upon which you have never labored: others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.

But many of the Samaritans from that city believed on Him through the word of the woman, testifying that, He told me all things which I did. Then when the Samaritans came to Him they asked Him to abide with them:

For in this the word is true, that there is one sowing, and another reaping.

Whatsoever you may do, work from your soul, as for the Lord, and not for men;

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

For the one having been called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lord's freeman: likewise the one having been called, while free, is the slave of Christ.

For must I now believe men, or God? whether do I seek to please men? if I were still pleasing men, I would not be the servant of Christ.

and we toil working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure it;

Let the one stealing steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his own hands doing that which is good, that he may have to give to the one having need.

I have shown you all things, that it so behooveth you laboring to assist the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

It behooves the toiling farmer first to partake of the fruits.

But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace was not vain toward me; but I have labored more abundantly than they all: and not I, but the grace of God with me.

For you remember, brethren, our labor and toil: night and day working, that we should burden no one of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

saying, These labored one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, who bore the burden of the day and the heat.

For it is not that there may be relief to others, affliction to you, but that it may be according to equality: at this time your abundance may correspond to their deficiency,

as also in all his epistles, speaking in the same concerning these things; in which there are some things hard to understand, which the unlearned and unestablished wrest, as they also do the other scriptures, to their own destruction.