18 Bible Verses about Hard Work

I have sent you to reap a harvest which you have not labored to make. Other men have labored, but you have reaped the results of their labors."

Many of the Samaritans in that town believed in Him because of the woman's testimony, when she said, "He has told me everything I ever did."

For in this matter the adage is true, 'One sows, another reaps.'

Whatever you do, do it with all your heart, as work for the Lord and not for men,

So, just as you once accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue living in vital union with Him,

For the slave who has been called to union with the Lord is the Lord's freedman; in the same way the freeman who has been called is a slave of Christ.

Am I now trying to win men's favor, or God's? Or, am I trying to be pleasing to men? If I were still trying to be pleasing to men, I would not be a slave of Christ at all.

We have worked hard with our own hands for a living. When abused by people, we bless them. When persecuted, we patiently bear it.

The man who used to steal must now stop stealing; rather, he must keep on working and toiling with his own hands at some honest vocation, so as to have something to contribute to the needy.

In everything I showed you that by working hard like this we must help those who are weak, and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, 'It makes one happier to give than to get.'"

The toiling farmer ought to be the first to share the crop.

But by God's unmerited favor I have become what I am, and His unmerited favor shown to me was not bestowed for nothing, for I have toiled more extensively than any of them, and yet it was not I but God's unmerited favor working with me.

You remember, brothers, our hard labor and toil. We kept up our habit of working night and day, in order not to be a burden to any of you when we preached to you.

and say, 'These last worked only one hour, and yet you have put them on the same footing with us who have borne the heavy burdens and scorching heat of the day.'

For I do not want it to be a relief for others and a burden on you,

speaking of it as he does in all his letters. In them are some things hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsteady twist to their ruin, as they do the rest of the Scriptures.