19 Bible Verses about The Fact Of Toil

And to Adam he said, "Because you listened to the voice of your wife and you ate from the tree {from which I forbade you to eat}, the ground [shall be] cursed on your account. In pain you shall eat [from] it all the days of your life.

By the sweat of your brow you shall eat bread, until your return to the ground. For from it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return."

"Does not {a human being have hard service} on earth? And [are not] his days like the days of a laborer?

he therefore humbled their heart with trouble. They stumbled and there was no helper.

As for the days of our years, within them [are] seventy years or if by strength eighty years, and their pride [is] trouble and disaster, for it passes quickly and we fly [away].

Humankind goes out to its work, and to its labor until evening.

In all toil, there is profit, but the {talk} of lips [leads] only to poverty.

I sent you to reap what you did not work for; others have worked, and you have entered into their work."

in beatings, in prisons, in disturbances, in troubles, in sleepless nights, in going hungry,

with toil and hardship, often in sleepless nights, with hunger and thirst, often going hungry, in cold and poorly clothed.

The one who steals must steal no longer, but instead must labor, working with his own hands [what is] good, so that he may have [something] to share with the one who has need.

I have shown you [with respect to] all [things] that [by] working hard in this way it is necessary to help those who are in need, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus that he himself said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive."

Now we ask you, brothers, to respect those who labor among you and rule over you in the Lord and admonish you,

The elders who lead well must be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor by speaking and teaching.

For to this [end] we labor and suffer reproach, because we have put our hope in [the] living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of believers.

The farmer who works hard must [be] the first to receive a share of the crops.

'I know your works, and your labor and patient endurance, and that you are not able to tolerate evil, and you put to the test those who call themselves apostles and are not, and you found them [to be] false.

And he called his name Noah, saying, "This one {shall relieve us} from our work, and from the hard labor of our hands, from the ground which Yahweh had cursed.

Come to me, all [of you] who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.