18 Bible Verses about Hard Work

I have sent you to reap that on which you have spent no labor; others have labored, and you have entered upon the results of their labor."

Many from that town came to believe in Jesus--Samaritans though they were--on account of the woman's statement--'He has told me everything that I have done.'

For here the proverb holds good--'One sows, another reaps.'

Whatever you do, do it with all your heart, as if working for the Master and not for men,

Since, therefore, you have received Jesus, the Christ, as your Lord, live your lives in union with him--

For the man who was a slave when he was called to the master's service is the Master's freed-man; so, too, the man who was free when called is Christ's slave.

Is this, I ask, trying to conciliate men, or God? Am I seeking to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I should not be a servant of Christ.

We work hard, toiling with our own hands. We meet abuse with blessings, we meet persecution with endurance,

Let the man who steals steal no longer, but rather let him toil with his hands at honest work, so that he may have something to share with any one in want.

I left nothing undone to show you that, laboring as I labored, you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said himself-- 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"

The labourer who does the work should be the first to receive a share of the fruits of the earth.

But it is through the love of God that I am what I am, and the love that he showed me has not been wasted. No, I have toiled harder than any of them, and yet it was not I, but the love of God working with me.

You will not have forgotten, Brothers, our labor and toil. Night and day we used to work at our trades, so as not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you God's Good News.

'These last,' they said, 'have done only one hour's work, and yet you have put them on the same footing with us, who have borne the brunt of the day's work, and the heat.'

For our object is not to give relief to others and bring distress on you, but, by equalizing matters, to secure that,

It is the same in all his letters, when he speaks in them about these subjects. There are some things in them difficult to understand, which untaught and weak people distort, just as they do all other writings, to their own Ruin.