17 Bible Verses about Physical Labour

And the LORD God took Adam and put him in 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 earth whence thou wast taken: for earth thou art, and unto earth shalt thou return."

Six days ye shall work, and the seventh is the Sabbath of rest, a holy feast: so that ye may do no work therein, for it is the Sabbath of the LORD, wheresoever ye dwell.

Hastily gotten goods are soon spent; but they that be gathered together with the hand, shall increase.

In every labour there is some profit; but only vain words bringeth forth penury.

Whatsoever thou takest in hand to do, that do with all thy power: for among the dead, where thou goest unto, there is neither work, counsel, knowledge nor wisdom.

Let him that stole, steal no more; but let him rather labour with his hands some good thing, that he may have to give unto him that needeth.

and that ye study to be quiet, and to meddle with your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you:

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

For what else hath a man, of all the labor that he taketh under the Sun?

Thus I have considered all the things that come to pass under the Sun, and lo, they are all but vanity and vexation of mind.

But when I considered all the works that my hands had wrought, and all the labours that I had taken therein: Lo, all was vanity and vexation of mind, and nothing of any value under the Sun.

There is one man, no more but himself alone, having neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of his careful travail, his eyes cannot be satisfied with riches. Yet, doth he not remember himself, and say, "For whom do I take such travail? For whose pleasure do I thus consume away my life?" This is also a vain and miserable thing.

This is a miserable plague, that he shall go away even as he came. What helpeth him then, that he hath labored in the wind?

Wherefore do ye lay out your money, for the thing that feedeth not, and spend your labour about the thing that satisfieth you not? But hearken rather unto me, and ye shall eat of the best, and your soul shall have her pleasure in plenteousness.

Shall not the LORD of Hosts bring this to pass, that the laborers of the people shall be burnt with a great fire, and that the thing whereupon the people have wearied themselves, shall be lost?

Labor not for the meat which perisheth, but for the meat that endureth unto everlasting life, which meat the son of man shall give unto you. For him hath God the father sealed."