18 Bible Verses about Hard Work

in as much as I have sent you to reap that on which ye have not laboured: others have laboured, and ye are entered into their labors.

And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on Him, because of what the woman said, testifying, He told me all that ever I did.

for herein the saying is verified, that one soweth, and another reapeth,

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

Therefore as ye have received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in Him;

For he that is called in the Lord being a slave, is the Lord's freed-man: and he likewise that is called being free is the servant of Christ.

For do I now persuade you to obey men or God? Or do I seek to please men? if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

and we labour working with our own hands. When we are reviled, we bless: when persecuted, we bear it: when defamed, we intreat.

Let him that stole steal no more; but rather let him labour, doing some good with his hands, that he may have something to bestow on him that hath need of it.

I have shewed you in all things, that by labouring thus ye ought to support the infirm; and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, who said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

The husbandman must labour first, in order to partake of the fruits.

But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his favor to 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 labor and toil; for working night and day, that we might not be burthensome to any of you, we preached among you the gospel of God.

saying, These last have worked but one hour, and thou hast made them equal to us, who have borne the burthen and heat of the day.

For I do not mean that others should have relief, and you be burdened:

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