11 Bible Verses about Men Working

For when I was with you, I gave you this direction, "If a person refuses to work, he must not be allowed to eat."

Whoever fails to provide for his own relatives, and especially for those of his immediate family, has disowned the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

So the pastor must be a man above reproach, must have only one wife, must be temperate, sensible, well-behaved, hospitable, skillful in teaching;

also keep up your ambition to live quietly, to practice attending to your own business and to work with your own hands, as we directed you, so that you may live influentially with the outsiders, and not be dependent on anybody.

Whatever you do, do it with all your heart, as work for the Lord and not for men,

Two men will be in the field; one will be taken, one will be left.

"But what do you think? There was a man who had two sons, He came to the first and said, 'Son, go and work in my vineyard today.'

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We must continue to do the works of Him who sent me while it is daylight. Night is coming when no one can do any work.

Heartily and cheerfully keep on working as slaves, as though it were for the Lord and not for men,

Now on the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ we charge and exhort such persons to do their own work with quiet and eat their own bread.