17 Bible Verses about Physical Labour

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

In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread, till you return unto the ground; for out of it were you taken: for dust you are, and unto dust shall you return.

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

Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathers by labor shall increase.

In all labor there is profit: but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

Whatsoever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, where you go.

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needs.

And that you study to be quiet, and to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;

Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

What profit has a man of all his labor which he takes under the sun?

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and like grasping the wind.

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had made, and on the labor that I had expended on it: and, behold, all was vanity and like grasping the wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he has neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labor; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither says he, For whom do I labor, and deprive my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a heavy travail.

And this also is a great evil, that just as he came, so shall he go: and what profit has he who has labored for the wind?

Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which satisfies not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.

Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labor to feed the fire, and the people shall weary themselves in vain?

Labor not for the food which perishes, but for that food which endures unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for on him has God the Father set his seal.