23 Bible Verses about Hard Work

I sent you to reap what you did not work for; others have worked, and you have entered into their work."

Now from that town many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman who testified, "He told me everything that I have done."

For in this [instance] the saying is true, 'It is one who sows and another who reaps.'

So I hated all my toil with which I have toiled under the sun, for I must leave it behind to someone who will be after me.

lest strangers take [their] fill of your strength, and your labors [go] to the house of a foreigner,

Whatever you do, accomplish [it] from the soul, as to the Lord, and not to people,

Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, live in him,

For the one who is called in the Lord [while] a slave is the Lord's freedperson. Likewise the one who is called [while] free is a slave of Christ.

For am I now making an appeal to people or [to] God? Or am I seeking to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ.

and we toil, working with our own hands. [When we are] reviled, we bless; [when we are] persecuted, we endure;

The one who steals must steal no longer, but instead must labor, working with his own hands [what is] good, so that he may have [something] to share with the one who has need.

I have shown you [with respect to] all [things] that [by] working hard in this way it is necessary to help those who are in need, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus that he himself said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive."

The farmer who works hard must [be] the first to receive a share of the crops.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been in vain, but I labored even more than all of them, and not I, but the grace of God with me.

For you remember, brothers, our labor and hardship: working by night and day in order not to be a burden to any of you, we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

saying, 'These last [people] worked one hour and you made them equal to us who have endured the burden of the day and the burning heat!'

They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat. For the days of my people [shall be] like the days of tree, and my chosen ones shall enjoy the work of their hands.

In all toil, there is profit, but the {talk} of lips [leads] only to poverty.

For [this is] not that for others [there may be] relief, [and] for you difficult circumstances, but [as a matter] of equality.

The sleep of the laborer [is] pleasant, whether he eats little or much, but the wealth of the rich man does not allow him to rest.

as [he does] also in all his letters, speaking in them about these [things], in which there are some [things] hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable distort to their own destruction, as [they] also [do] the rest of the scriptures.