11 Bible Verses about Men Working
Most Relevant Verses
For indeed when we were with you, we proclaimed this to you, that if any one does not wish to work, let him not eat.
But if any one provides not for his own, and especially those of his own house, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Therefore it behooves the bishop to be blameless, the husband of one wife, modest, prudent, orderly, hospitable, competent to teach,
and that you aspire to be quiet, and to prosecute your own employments, and work with your hands, as we proclaimed unto you; in order that you may walk about circumspectly toward the aliens, and you may have need of nothing.
Whatsoever you may do, work from your soul, as for the Lord, and not for men;
What seems to you? A man had two sons; and going to the first, he said, Child, go to-day, work in my vineyard.
It behooveth us to work the works of Him that sent us, while it is day: the night comes, when no one is able to work.
but we command such and exhort them in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietude working, they must eat their own bread.
