19 Bible Verses about The Fact Of Toil
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He said to Adam: Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
You will eat your food by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground. You came from the ground. For dust you are and to dust you will return.
Is this not the struggle of all humanity? A person's life is long and hard like that of a hired hand.
He humbled them with hard work. They fell down, but no one was there to help them.
The days of our lives are seventy or eighty years if we are in good health. But the best of them bring trouble and misery. Indeed, they are soon gone, and we fly away.
In all labor there is profit: but idle chatter leads only to destitution.
I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Other men labored and you entered into their labors.
in beatings, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watching, in fasting;
In weariness and painfulness, in watching often, in hunger and thirst, in fasting often, in cold and nakedness.
He that steals must steal no more. Let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have something to give to someone in need.
In all things I gave you an example. You by laboring should help the weak. Remember the words of the Lord Jesus: It is more blessed to give than to receive.
We ask you, brothers, to appreciate those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you.
Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.
This is why we labor and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.
The hard-working farmer should be first to receive his share of the crops.
I know your works, and your labor, and your patience. I also know how you cannot tolerate those who are evil. You tested those who say they are apostles. They are not apostles. You found them to be liars.
He named him Noah. He said: He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground Jehovah has cursed.
Come unto me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.