23 Bible Verses about Hard Work

I have sent you to reap that upon which ye bestowed no labour; others laboured, and ye have entered into their labours.

And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in him by the word of the woman, who testified, He told me all that I have done.

And herein is that saying true, One sows and another reaps.

Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun, which I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.

lest strangers be filled with thy wealth, and thy labours be in the house of a stranger,

And whatever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men,

Therefore in the manner in which ye received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him,

For he that is called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lord's freeman; likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's slave.

For do I now persuade men or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the slave of Christ.

and labour, working with our own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it;

Let him that stole steal no more, but rather let him labour, working with his hands that which is good, that he may have to give to him that is in need.

I have showed you in all things how that so labouring, ye ought to support the weak and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

The husbandman, in order to receive the fruits, must first work hard.

But by the grace of God I am what I am; and his grace towards me was not in vain, for I laboured more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail, for labouring night and day, not to be a burden unto any of you, we preached among you the gospel of God.

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

They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of the trees shall be the days of my people, and my elect shall perpetuate the work of their hands.

In all labour there is fruit, but to talk and not do, brings poverty.

For I mean not that others be eased and ye burdened,

The sleep of the servant is sweet whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

in almost all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, among which are some things that are hard to understand, which those that are ignorant and unstable twist, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.