16 Bible Verses about Physical Labour

And LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

In the sweat of thy face thou shall eat bread, till thou return to the ground, for out of it thou were taken. For thou are dust, and to dust thou shall return.

Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. Ye shall do no manner of work. It is a Sabbath to LORD in all your dwellings.

Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished, but he who gathers by labor shall have increase.

In all labor there is profit, but the talk of the lips [tends] only to poverty.

Whatever thy hand finds to do, do with thy might, for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where thou go.

Let the man who steals steal no more, but rather let him labor, working with his hands the good, so that he may have to give to him who has need.

and to aspire to live quietly, and to do your own things, and to work with your own hands, just as we commanded you,

Now to such men we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that, working with quietness, they should eat their own bread.

What profit has man from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do, and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit has he that he labored for the wind?

Why do ye spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Hearken diligently to me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

Behold, is it not of LORD of hosts that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

Work not for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you, for God the Father put a seal on this man.