19 Bible Verses about The Fact Of Toil

But to Adam he said, "Because you obeyed your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat from it,' cursed is the ground thanks to you; in painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return."

"Does not humanity have hard service on earth? Are not their days also like the days of a hired man?

So he used suffering to humble them; they stumbled and no one helped them up.

The days of our lives add up to seventy years, or eighty, if one is especially strong. But even one's best years are marred by trouble and oppression. Yes, they pass quickly and we fly away.

Men then go out to do their work, and labor away until evening.

In all hard work there is profit, but merely talking about it only brings poverty.

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

in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in troubles, in sleepless nights, in hunger,

in hard work and toil, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, many times without food, in cold and without enough clothing.

The one who steals must steal no longer; rather he must labor, doing good with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with the one who has need.

By all these things, I have shown you that by working in this way we must help the weak, and 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 and sisters, to acknowledge those who labor among you and preside over you in the Lord and admonish you,

Elders who provide effective leadership must be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard in speaking and teaching.

In fact this is why we work hard and struggle, because we have set our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of believers.

The farmer who works hard ought to have the first share of the crops.

I know your works as well as your labor and steadfast endurance, and that you cannot tolerate evil. You have even put to the test those who refer to themselves as apostles (but are not), and have discovered that they are false.

He named him Noah, saying, "This one will bring us comfort from our labor and from the painful toil of our hands because of the ground that the Lord has cursed."

Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.