23 Bible Verses about Hard Work

I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor."

From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, "He told me everything that I did."

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

I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who comes after me.

lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man's house.

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

As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,

For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord's free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ's bondservant.

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

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

The farmers who labor must be the first to get a share of the crops.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was bestowed on me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.

saying, 'These last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.'

They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree shall be the days of my people, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.