23 Bible Verses about Men Working

For even when we were with you, this we declared unto you, that if anyone desires not to work neither should he eat.

But if any provide not for his own and specially for those of his own house, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

And the LORD God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

It is expedient, therefore, that the bishop be blameless, the husband of only one wife, vigilant, temperate, of worldly affections mortified, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

and that ye procure to be quiet and to do your business and to work with your hands, as we commanded you, that ye may walk honestly toward those that are without, and that ye may desire nothing from any one.

Then he went up from there unto Bethel, and as he was going up by the way, the young men of the city came forth and mocked him, saying, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head. And he turned back and looked on them and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And two bears came forth out of the forest and tore apart forty-two young men of them.

The deceitful man does not even roast that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man is precious.

Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto those that put their trust in him. Do not add unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

And whatever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men,

Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken and the other left.

Seest thou a man diligent in his work? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before obscure men.

But what do you think? A certain man had two sons, and he came to the first and said, Son, go work today in my vineyard.

Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

Send me now, therefore, a wise man who knows how to work in gold and in silver and in brass and in iron and in purple and crimson and blue and that knows how to engrave figures with the craftsmen that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David, my father, provided.

He seals up the hand of every man that all men may know his work.

It is expedient that I do the works of him that sent me while it is day; the night comes, when no one can work.

And her mother-in-law said unto her, Where hast thou gleaned today? Where hast thou worked? Blessed be he that acknowledged thee. And she declared unto her mother-in-law all that had happened to her with him and said, The man's name with whom I worked today is Boaz.

For what does man have of all his labour and of the vexation of his heart in which he has laboured under the sun?

What profit does the one that works have in that in which he labours?

with good will doing service as to the Lord and not to men,

Now those that are such, we charge and exhort in our Lord Jesus Christ, that working with quietness, they eat their bread.

And, behold, an old man, who in the evening came from working in the field, who was also of Mount Ephraim, sojourned in Gibeah, but the men of the place were sons of Jemini.

Moreover there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and workers of stone and timber and all manner of expert men for every manner of work.