19 Bible Verses about The Fact Of Toil

And unto Adam he said, "Forasmuch as thou hast obeyed the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying 'See thou eat not thereof' cursed be the earth for thy sake. In sorrow shalt thou eat thereof all days of thy life:

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."

Is not the life of man upon earth a very battle? Are not his days like the days of a hired servant?

They fell down, and there was none to help them.

The days of our age are threescore years and ten: and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.

Then goeth forth man to his work, and to till his land until the evening.

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

I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labor. Other men laboured; And ye are entered into their labors."

in stripes, in prisonment, in strife, in labour, in watching, in fasting,

in labour and travail, in watching often, in hunger, in thirst, in fastings often, in cold and in nakedness.

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.

I have showed you all things, how that so laboring ye ought to receive the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how that he said, 'It is more blessed to give, than to receive.'"

We beseech you brethren, that ye know them which labour among you, and have the oversight of you in the Lord,

The elders that rule well are worthy of double honour, most specially they which labour in the word and in teaching.

For therefore we labour and suffer rebuke, because we believe in the living God, which is the saviour of all men: but specially of those that believe.

The husbandman that laboureth must first receive of the fruits.

I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not forbear them which are evil: and examinedst them which say they are apostles, and are not: and hast found them liars.

and called him Noah, saying, "This same shall comfort us: as concerning our work and sorrow of our hands which we have about the earth that the LORD hath cursed."

Come unto me all ye that labor, and are laden, and I will ease you.