18 Bible Verses about Hard Work

I sent you to reap that on which ye bestowed no labor; others have labored, and ye entered into their labor."

And many of the Samaritans from that city believed on Him because of the word of the woman, who testified, "He told me all that ever I did."

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

Whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not to men;

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

For he that was called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lord's freedman: likewise, he that was called, being free, is Christ's slave.

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I seeking to please men? If still I were pleasing men, I should not be Christ's servant.

and we toil, laboring with our own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;

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

In all things I showed you that, thus laboring, ye 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 toiling husbandman must first partake of the fruits.

But by God's grace I am what I am; and His grace which was bestowed upon me did not prove vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

For ye remember, brethren, our labor and toil; working night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you, we preached to you the Gospel of God.

saying, 'These last wrought but one hour, and you made them equal with us, who bore the burden of the day and the burning heat!'

For it is not that there may be relief to others, but distress to you;

as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unstable wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.