18 Bible Verses about Hard Work

I have sent you to reap a harvest on which you have not worked. Other men have worked and you have profited by their work."

Many of the Samaritans in that town came to believe in him because of the testimony the woman gave when she said, "He has told me everything I ever did!"

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

Work at everything you do with all your hearts, as work done not for men only but for the Lord,

So just as you once accepted the Christ, Jesus, as your Lord, you must live in vital union with him.

For a slave who has been called to union with the Lord is a freedman of the Lord, just as a free man who has been called is a slave of Christ.

Is that appealing to men's weaknesses, or to God? Is that trying to suit men? If I were still doing that, I would be no slave of Christ.

we have worked with our hands for a living. When people abuse us, we bless them, when they persecute us, we put up with it,

The man who stole must not steal any more; he must work with his hands at honest toil instead, so as to have something to share with those who are in need.

I showed you in every way that by hard work like that we must help those who are weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, for he said, 'It makes one happier to give than to be given to.' "

The farmer who does the work ought to be the first to have some of the produce.

But by God's favor I have become what I am, and the favor he showed me has not gone for nothing, but I have worked harder than any of them, although it was not really I but the favor God showed me.

You remember, brothers, how we toiled and labored. We worked night and day, when we preached the good news to you, in order not to be a burden to any of you.

and said, 'These men who were hired last worked only one hour, and you have put them on the same footing with us who have done the heavy work of the day and have stood the midday heat.'

I do not mean to be easy upon others and hard upon you,

speaking of it as he does in all his letters. There are some things in them hard to understand, which ignorant, unsteadfast people twist to their own ruin, just as they do the rest of the Scriptures.