22 Bible Verses about Men Working

For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.

Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife,sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

and to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you, so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one.

He went up from there to Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, "Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!" And he turned around, and when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of the LORD. And two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys.

Whoever is slothful will not roast his game, but the diligent man will get precious wealth.

Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him. Do not add to his words, lest he rebuke you and you be found a liar.

Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

Then two men will be in the field; one will be taken and one left.

Do you see a man skillful in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men.

"What do you think? A man had two sons. And he went to the first and said, 'Son, go and work in the vineyard today.'

So now send me a man skilled to work in gold, silver, bronze, and iron, and in purple, crimson, and blue fabrics, trained also in engraving, to be with the skilled workers who are with me in Judah and Jerusalem, whom David my father provided.

He seals up the hand of every man, that all men whom he made may know it.

We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.

And her mother-in-law said to her, "Where did you glean today? And where have you worked? Blessed be the man who took notice of you." So she told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked and said, "The man's name with whom I worked today is Boaz."

What has a man from all the toil and striving of heart with which he toils beneath the sun?

What gain has the worker from his toil?

rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man,

Now such persons we command and encourage in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living.

And behold, an old man was coming from his work in the field at evening. The man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he was sojourning in Gibeah. The men of the place were Benjaminites.

You have an abundance of workmen: stonecutters, masons, carpenters, and all kinds of craftsmen without number, skilled in working