23 Bible Verses about Men Working

For also when we were with you we enjoined you this, that if any man does not like to work, neither let him eat.

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

And Jehovah Elohim took Man, and put him into the garden of Eden, to till it and to guard it.

The overseer then must be irreproachable, husband of one wife, sober, discreet, decorous, hospitable, apt to teach;

and to seek earnestly to be quiet and mind your own affairs, and work with your own hands, even as we charged you, that ye may walk reputably towards those without, and may have need of no one.

And he went up from thence to Bethel, and as he went up by the way, there came forth little boys out of the city, and mocked him, and said to him, Go up, bald head; go up, bald head! And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of Jehovah. And there came forth two she-bears out of the wood, and tore forty-two children of them.

The slothful roasteth not what he took in hunting; but man's precious substance is to the diligent.

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

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

Then two shall be in the field, one is taken and one is left;

Hast thou seen a man diligent in his work? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before the mean.

But what think ye? A man had two children, and coming to the first he said, Child, go to-day, work in my vineyard.

Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be seized and the other let go.

And now send me a man skilful to work in gold, and in silver, and in bronze, and in iron, and in purple and crimson and blue, and experienced in carving, besides the skilful men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father provided.

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

I must work the works of him that has sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

And her mother-in-law said to her, Where hast thou gleaned to-day? and where hast thou wrought? Blessed be he that did regard thee! And she told her mother-in-law with whom she had wrought, and said, The man's name with whom I wrought to-day is Boaz.

For what will man have of all his labour and of the striving of his heart, wherewith he hath wearied himself under the sun?

What profit hath he that worketh from that wherein he laboureth?

serving with good will as to the Lord, and not to men;

Now such we enjoin and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that working quietly they eat their own bread.

And behold, an old man was coming from his work in the field at evening; the man was from the hill country of E'phraim, and he was sojourning in Gib'e-ah; the men of the place were Benjaminites.

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