19 Bible Verses about The Fact Of Toil

And to Adam he said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;

By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return."

"Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand?

So he bowed their hearts down with hard labor; they fell down, with none to help.

The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.

Man goes out to his work and to his labor until the evening.

In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.

I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor."

beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger;

in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.

Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.

In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"

We ask you, brothers, to respect those who labor among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you,

Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching.

For to this end we toil and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe.

It is the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops.

"'I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false.

and called his name Noah, saying, "Out of the ground that the LORD has cursed this one shall bring us relief from our work and from the painful toil of our hands."

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.