18 Bible Verses about Hard Work

I sent you to reap where you bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and you are entred into their labours.

Now many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him, for that testimony which the woman gave him, "he told me all that ever I did."

upon this occasion, that saying is verified, "one soweth, and another reapeth."

and whatever you do, do it heartily, as serving the Lord, and not men:

continue therefore to follow the doctrine of our Lord Jesus Christ, as you have receiv'd it:

for the slave that turns christian, is the Lord's freedman: likewise, the freeman that becomes a convert is Christ's servant.

for do I now act in obedience to men, or to God? or do I seek to please men? if I had hitherto pleased men, I should not have been the servant of Christ.

we are fatigu'd by our manual toil: when reviled, we pray: when persecuted, we don't repine:

let him that stole, steal no more: but rather let him labour, to encrease his fortune with his own hands, that he may have wherewithal to relieve the needy:

my constant example has shown you that the disabled should be assisted by your labours, remembring the words of the Lord Jesus, who said, "it is a greater happiness to give than to receive."

the labourer must work before he can obtain his reward.

it is by the divine favour that I am what I am: and his favour to me was not in vain; no, I laboured more than they all: yet it was not I, it was the divine favour which assisted me.

for you remember, my brethren, our labour and toil: how we worked day and night, that in preaching the gospel of God, we might not be chargeable to any of you.

these last have work'd but an hour, and you put them upon the level with us, who have born the whole fatigue and heat of the day.

my meaning is not, that you should be distress'd to relieve others, I only recommend an equality;

as it were in all his epistles, where he takes notice of these things: in which there are some passages that are difficult to understand, which the illiterate, and unstable wrest, as they do the rest of the scriptures, to their own ruin.