23 Bible Verses about Hard Work

I sent you to reap that on which you bestowed no labor: other men labored, and you are entered into their labors.

And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, who testified, He told me all that ever I did.

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

Yea, I hated all my labor in which I had toiled under the sun: because I must leave it unto the man that shall be after me.

Lest strangers be filled with your wealth; and your labors go to the house of a foreigner;

And whatsoever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;

As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him:

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

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

And labor, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure it:

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needs.

I have showed you all things, how that so laboring you 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 farmer that labors must be first partaker of the fruits.

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

For you remember, brethren, our labor and travail: for laboring night and day, because we would not be a burden unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

Saying, These last have worked but one hour, and you have 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 a tree are the days of my people, and my elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

In all labor there is profit: but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

For I mean not that other men be eased, and you burdened:

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable twist, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.