17 Bible Verses about Physical Labour

And the 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 shalt thou eat bread until thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken, for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day shall be a sabbath of rest, a holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein; it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.

The riches of vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathers by labour shall increase.

In all labour there is fruit, but to talk and not do, brings poverty.

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

Let him that stole steal no more, but rather let him labour, working with his hands that which is good, that he may have to give to him that is in need.

and that ye procure to be quiet and to do your business and to work with your hands, as we commanded you,

Now those that are such, we charge and exhort in our Lord Jesus Christ, that working with quietness, they eat their bread.

What profit does a man have of all his labour which he takes under the sun?

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

At last I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought and on the labour that I had laboured to do; and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

It is the man who is alone, without a successor, who has neither son nor brother; yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity and sore travail.

And this also is a sore evil; that in all points as he came, so shall he go; and what profit has he that has laboured for the wind?

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

Is this not of the LORD of the hosts? Therefore the peoples shall labour for the fire, and the Gentiles shall weary themselves in vain.

Labour not for the food which perishes, but for the food which abides unto eternal life, which the Son of man shall give unto you, for him has God the Father sealed.