18 Bible Verses about Hard Work

I sent you to reap a crop on which you have not toiled. Others have toiled, and you have reaped the benefit of their toil."

Many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him because of the word of the woman when she declared, "He told me everything that I ever did."

For in this respect the saying is true, 'One sows, another reaps.'

And whatever you do, do it heartily as for the Lord, and not for men.

As then you have received Jesus Christ, your Lord, in him live your lives;

For the slave who has been called in the Lord is the Lord's freedman; and in the same way, the free man who is called is Christ's slave.

Think you that I am now trying to conciliate men or God? Or am I "seeking to please men"? If I were still seeking to please men, I should not be a slave of Christ.

Homeless men, we toil, working with our own hands.

Let him who stole steal no more, but let him work, and in honest industry toil with his hands, so that he may have something to give to the needy.

"In all things I have set you an example, how that so toiling, you ought to help the weak and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive."

The farmer who has done the work should be the first to get a share of the crop.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and that grace of his, bestowed upon me, did not prove ineffectual. I labored more abundantly than all the rest, yet not I, but by the grace of God that is with me.

You recall, brothers, my labor and toil; how, while working at my trade day and night, so as not to become a burden to any of you, I proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

"'Those last men,' they said, 'have toiled only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden and the burning heat of the day.'

Nor are other people to be relieved, and you to be distressed;

It is the same in all his letters when he speaks of these things. There are indeed some things in his letters hard to understand, which the ignorant and the shifty wrest, as also they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.