9 Bible Verses about Industry
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Never be lacking in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serving the Lord.
He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but rather must labor, doing useful work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with those in need.
Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you,
You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my own needs and to the men who were with me.
For you remember our labor and toil, brethren; we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we preached to you the gospel of God.
In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"
For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: "If anyone will not work, he shall not eat." For we hear that some among you are leading an undisciplined life, not doing any work at all, but acting like busybodies. Now such persons we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ to work in quiet fashion and earn their own bread to eat.
If any one does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his own family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
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Business life » Fidelity » Industry
Never be lacking in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serving the Lord.
Industry » Commended
Never be lacking in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serving the Lord.
Industry » Commanded
Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you,
He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but rather must labor, doing useful work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with those in need.
Industry » Requisite to supply » Our own wants
For you remember our labor and toil, brethren; we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we preached to you the gospel of God.
You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my own needs and to the men who were with me.
Industry » Characteristic of Godly women
Industry » Exemplified
and because he was of the same trade he stayed with them, and they worked, for by trade they were tentmakers.
and we toil, working with our own hands. When we are reviled, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure;
Industry » Requisite to supply » Wants of others
In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"
He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but rather must labor, doing useful work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with those in need.
Industry » Instances of » Paul
and because he was of the same trade he stayed with them, and they worked, for by trade they were tentmakers.
I have coveted no one's silver or gold or clothes. You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my own needs and to the men who were with me.
nor did we eat anyone's bread without paying for it, but with labor and hardship we worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to any of you.
Industry » The slothful devoid of
Industry » Exemplified » David
Industry » Leads to » Affection of relatives
Industry » Leads to » Increase of substance
Industry » Leads to » General commendation
Industry » Early rising necessary to
Industry » Illustrated
Industry » Exemplified » Jeroboam
Industry » Exemplified » Jewish elders
Industry » Exemplified » Rachel
Industry » Exemplified » jacob
Industry » Required of man in a state of innocence
Industry » To be suspended on the sabbath
Industry » Required of man after the fall
Industry » Exemplified » Jethro's daughters
Industry » Exemplified » Ruth
Industry » Instances of » Jeroboam
Industry » Exemplified » Dorcas
So Peter rose and went with them. And when he arrived, they took him to the upper room. All the widows stood beside him, weeping and showing the tunics and other garments that Dorcas made while she was with them.
Paul » Characteristics of » Industry
For you remember our labor and toil, brethren; we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we preached to you the gospel of God.
You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my own needs and to the men who were with me.
Rose » Ruth , the woman of constancy, characteristics of » Industry
Ruth » Industry
Virtues » Industry » Commended
Never be lacking in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serving the Lord.
Virtues » Industry » Examples of
and because he was of the same trade he stayed with them, and they worked, for by trade they were tentmakers.
physical Work » Business life » Industry » Examples of
and because he was of the same trade he stayed with them, and they worked, for by trade they were tentmakers.
Topics on Industry
Industry, Examples Of
Acts 18:3and because he was of the same trade he stayed with them, and they worked, for by trade they were tentmakers.
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- Bad Counsel
- Becoming Poor
- Being In Debt
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- Business Ethics
- Busyness
- Care
- Cultivation
- Diligence, Results Of
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- Doing One's Work
- Doing Your Best
- Employees
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- Farming
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- Garden Of Eden, The
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- Godly Woman
- Hard Labor
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- Idleness
- Idleness Leads To
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- Labor
- Laziness
- Leisure, Nature And Purpose Of
- Men Working
- Minding Your Own Business
- Money Blessings
- Money, Stewardship Of
- Physical Labour
- Poverty
- Poverty, Causes Of
- Poverty, Remedies For
- Roses
- Saving Money
- Service
- Serving God
- Shame Of Bad Conduct
- Sleep, Physical
- Sloth, Leads To
- Sluggards
- Stewardship
- Success And Hard Work
- Support
- The Benefits Of Labor
- The Fact Of Toil
- The Love Of Sleep
- Thrift
- Tilling The Soil
- Wages
- Wasting Time
- Wisdom, Human Nature
- Work, And Redemption
- Work, And Rest
- Work, As Ordained By God
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- Zeal
- Diligence
- Eagerness
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- Providing
- Sloth
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