11 Bible Verses about Men Working
Most Relevant Verses
For when we were with you, this we enjoined you, that if a man would not work, neither should he eat.
But if any man provide not for his own relations, and especially for those more immediately of his own family, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
A bishop then must be irreprehensible, the husband of one wife, temperate, sagacious, respectable, hospitable, well qualified for teaching;
and that you make it your study to live peaceably, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we have enjoined you; that ye walk becomingly towards those without, and need no assistance from any person.
And in every thing that ye do, labour from the soul, as for the Lord, and not man;
Then two shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other dismissed.
But what think ye? A man had two sons; and coming to the first he said, Son, go work to-day in my vineyard.
37 And they answering, said to him, Where, Lord? And he said, Wherever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night is coming, when no man can work.
Now such we command, and conjure, by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they labour, and eat their own bread.