23 Bible Verses about Hard Work

I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labor. Other men laboured; And ye are entered into their labors."

Many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him, for the woman's saying: which testified, "He told me all things that ever I did."

And herein is the saying true, That one soweth; And another reapeth.

Yea, I was weary of all my labour, which I had taken under the Sun, because I should be fain to leave them unto another man, that cometh after me.

That other men be not filled with thy goods, and that thy labours come not in a strange house.

And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily as though ye did it to the Lord, and not unto men,

As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, even so walk rooted and built in him,

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

Preach I man's doctrine or God's? Other go I about to please men? If I studied to please men, I were not the servant of Christ.

and labour working with our own hands. We are reviled, and yet we bless. We are persecuted, and suffer it.

Let him that stole, steal no more; but let him rather labour with his hands some good thing, that he may have to give unto him that needeth.

I have showed you all things, how that so laboring ye ought to receive the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how that he said, 'It is more blessed to give, than to receive.'"

The husbandman that laboureth must first receive of the fruits.

But by the grace of God I am that I am. And his grace which is in me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which is with me.

Ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail. For we laboured day and night, because we would not be grievous unto any of you, and preached unto you the gospel of God.

'These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us which have borne the burden and heat of the day.'

They shall not build, and another possess; they shall not plant, and another eat. But the life of my people shall be like a tree, and so shall the work of their hands.

In every labour there is some profit; but only vain words bringeth forth penury.

It is not my mind that other be set at ease, and ye brought into cumbrance: but that there be equalness now at this time,

A labouring man sleepeth sweetly, whether it be little or much that he eateth; but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

yea, almost in every epistle, speaking of such things: among which are many things hard to be understood: which they that are unlearned and unstable pervert, as they do other scriptures, unto their own destruction.