17 Bible Verses about Physical Labour

And Jehovah God will take the man and will set him down in the garden of Eden to work it and to keep it.

In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat food until thy turning back to the earth; for out of it thou wert taken; for dust thou art, and to dust shalt thou turn back.

Six days shall work be done; the seventh day a Sabbath of rest, a holy calling: ye shall not do any work: it is a Sabbath to Jehovah in all your dwellings.

Wealth from vanity shall be diminished: and he gathering with the hand, shall increase.

In all labor will be profit: and the word of the lips only to want

All which thy hand shall find to do, with thy strength, do thou; for no work and understanding and knowledge and wisdom, in hades where thou goest there.

He stealing let him steal no more: and rather let him be wearied from fatigue, working good with the hands, that he have to impart to him having need.

And that ye be ambitions to remain quiet, and attend to your own things, and work with your own hands, as we enjoined you;

And to such we proclaim and beseech by our Lord Jesus Christ, that, with freedom from care working, they should eat their own bread.

What the profit to a man in all the labor he will labor under the sun?

I saw all the works they did under the sun; and behold, all vanity and striving of the spirit

And I looked upon all my works my hands made, and upon the labor I labored to do, and behold, all vanity and striving of the spirit, and no profit under the sun.

There is one, and not a second; also a son and brother not to him: and no end to all his labor; also his eye shall not be satisfied with riches: and for whom do I labor and diminish my soul from good? Also this is vanity, and it is an evil labor.

And also this an evil making sick, wholly as he came so shall he go: and what to him he shall labor for the wind?

Wherefore will ye weigh silver without bread? and your labour not for fulness? hearing, hear ye to me, and eat good, and your soul shall delight in fatness.

Behold, is it not from Jehovah of armies, and the peoples shall labor in a sufficiency of fire, and the peoples shall be wearied in a sufficiency of emptiness?

Work not for food perishing, but food remaining to eternal life, which the Son of man will give you: for him God the Father sealed.