23 Bible Verses about Hard Work

I sent you to reap that with which ye have not been wearied: some have been wearied, and others have come into their labor.

And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in him for the woman's word testifying, That he told me all which I ever did.

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

And I hated all my labor I laboring under the sun: leaving it to the man who shall come after me.

Lest strangers shall be filled with thy strength, and thy labors in the house of strangers;

And all, whatever ye do, work ye from the soul, as to the Lord, and not to men;

Therefore as ye received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him:

For the servant called in the Lord, is the freedman of the Lord: likewise also the freedman called, is the servant of Christ.

For now do I persuade men, or God? or seek I to please men? for if I had yet pleased men, I should not have been the servant of Christ.

And we are wearied, working with our own hands: being reviled, we praise; being driven out, we hold up

He stealing let him steal no more: and rather let him be wearied from fatigue, working good with the hands, that he have to impart to him having need.

I shewed you all things, that so being wearied ye must support the weak, and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that himself said, It is happy to give rather than receive.

The farmer toiling must first participate in the fruits.

And by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which in me was not vain; but I was more abundantly wearied than they all: and not I, but the grace of God which with me.

For ye remember, brethren, our fatigue and toil: for also working night and day, not to overload any of you, we proclaimed to you the good news of God.

Saying, That these last worked one hour, and thou hast made them equal to us, having 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 a tree the days of my people, and my chosen shall wear out the work of their hands.

In all labor will be profit: and the word of the lips only to want

For not that ease to others, and pressure to you:

The sleep of the servant is sweet, if little, or if much he shall eat: and the satiety to the rich not permitting to him to sleep.

As also in all the epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things difficult to understand, which the unlearned and unstable pervert, as also the rest of the writings, to their own perdition.