17 Bible Verses about Physical Labour

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

In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.

Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, a holy convocation. You shall not do any work. It is a sabbath to Jehovah in all your dwellings.

Wealth gotten by vanity shall be taken away, but he who gathers by hand shall increase.

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

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

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

and that you try earnestly to be quiet and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you,

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

What is the profit to a man in all his labor which he labors under the sun?

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

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit; and there is no profit under the sun.

There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he has neither son nor brother; yet there is no end to all his labor; and his eyes are not satisfied with riches; and he says, For whom do I labor and take good from my soul? This is also vanity. Yes, it is an evil business.

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

Why do you weigh silver for what is not bread? and your labor for what never satisfies? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

Behold, is it not for Jehovah of Hosts that the people labor only for fire; yea, the nations weary themselves only for vanity?

Do not labor for the food that perishes, but for that food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you. For God the Father sealed Him.