18 Bible Verses about Hard Work

I sent you to reap a crop for which you did not toil; other men have toiled, and you reap the profit of their toil."

Now many Samaritans belonging to that town believed in him on account of the woman's testimony, "He told me everything I ever did."

That proverb, 'One sows and another reaps,' holds true here:

Whatever be your task, work at it heartily, as servants of the Lord and not of men;

Since you have had the messiah, even Jesus the Lord, brought to you, lead your life in him,

But a slave who is called to be in the Lord is a freedman of the Lord. Just as a free man who is called is a slave of Christ

Now is that 'appealing to the interests of men' or of God? Trying to 'satisfy men'? Why, if I still tried to give satisfaction to human masters, I would be no servant of Christ.

we work hard for our living; when reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we put up with it;

Let the thief steal no more; rather let him work and put his hands to an honest task, so as to have something to contribute to the needy.

I showed you how this was the way to work hard and succour the needy, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, who said, 'To give is happier than to get.'"

The farmer who has done the work must have the first share of the fruit.

But by God's grace I am what I am. The grace he showed me did not go for nothing; no, I have done far more work than all of them ??though it was not I but God's grace at my side.

Brothers, you recollect our hard labour and toil, how we worked at our trade night and day, when we preached the gospel to you, so as not to be a burden to any of you.

'These last,' they said, 'have only worked a single hour, and yet you have ranked them equal to us who have borne the brunt of the day's work and the heat!'

This does not mean that other people are to be relieved and you to suffer:

speaking of this as he has done in all his letters ??letters containing some knotty points, which ignorant and unsteady souls twist (as they do the rest of the scriptures) to their own destruction.