18 Bible Verses about Hard Work

I have sent you to reap that whereon ye have bestowed no labour: others have laboured, and ye are entered into their labour.

And many of the Samaritans out of that city believed on him, for the saying of the woman testifying, He told me all that ever I did.

And herein is the saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.

And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not to men: Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance;

As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him;

For he that is called by the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman; and in like manner, he that is called being free, is the servant of Christ.

For do I now satisfy men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:

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

I have shewed you all things, that thus labouring ye ought to help the infirm, and to remember the word of the Lord Jesus, which he himself said, It is happier to give than to receive.

The husbandman, that laboureth first, must be partaker of the fruits.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain, but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

For ye remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.

These last have wrought one hour, and thou hast made them equal to us, who have borne the burden and heat of the day.

For I do not mean, that others should be eased, and you burthened; But by an equality,

As also in all his epistles, speaking therein of these things, in which are some things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.