19 Bible Verses about Work, As Ordained By God

in order that you may walk about circumspectly toward the aliens, and you may have need of nothing.

Let the one stealing steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his own hands doing that which is good, that he may have to give to the one having need.

For you remember, brethren, our labor and toil: night and day working, that we should burden no one of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

But if any one provides not for his own, and especially those of his own house, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

and every thing whatsoever you may do, in word or in work, do all things in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Then whether you eat, or whether you drink, or what you do, do all things to the glory of God.

Ye servants, obey those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in purity of your heart, as unto Christ; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers, but as the servants of Christ doing the will of God from the soul; serving with good will as the Lord, and not men:read more.
knowing that if each one may do good, he will receive this with the Lord, whether bond or free.

Ye servants, obey your masters according to the flesh in all things; not with eye-service, pleasing men, but of purity of heart, fearing the Lord. Whatsoever you may do, work from your soul, as for the Lord, and not for men; knowing that you will receive the recompense of the inheritance from the Lord. Serve the Lord Christ;

And let our people indeed learn to excel in good works for necessary uses, in order that they may not be unfruitful.

and that you aspire to be quiet, and to prosecute your own employments, and work with your hands, as we proclaimed unto you;

For you yourselves know how it behooves you to imitate us; because we were not disorderly among you; neither did we eat bread with any one gratuitously, but with labor and toil, night and day working, that we might not burden any one of you: not because we have not the right, but in order that we may give ourselves an example to you, that you may imitate us.read more.
For indeed when we were with you, we proclaimed this to you, that if any one does not wish to work, let him not eat. For we hear that there are certain ones walking about among you disorderly, doing nothing, but they are busybodies: but we command such and exhort them in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietude working, they must eat their own bread.

Is not He the son of the carpenter? is not His mother called Mary? are not His brothers, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?

Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary? the brother of James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas? Are not His sisters here with us? And they were offended in Him.

For on account of this also pay tribute; for they are the ministers of God, attending to this very thing.

If not as the Lord has imparted to each one, and as God has called each one, so let him or her walk. And thus I command in all the churches.

Whatsoever you may do, work from your soul, as for the Lord, and not for men; knowing that you will receive the recompense of the inheritance from the Lord. Serve the Lord Christ;

For as a man going away, called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods, to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to each one according to his own ability; and departed. The one having received the five talents going immediately, operated with the same, and made other five talents.read more.
Likewise the one having received two gained two others. And he having received one, having gone away, digged up the earth, and buried the money belonging to his lord. And after a long time the lord of those servants comes, and makes a reckoning with them. And the one having received the five talents coming to him brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou didst deliver unto me five talents: behold, I have gained other five talents. His lord said to him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou wast faithful over few things, and I will make thee ruler over many things: come thou into the joy of thy lord. And the one having received two talents, coming to him, said, Lord, thou didst deliver unto me two talents: behold, I have gained other two talents. And his lord said to him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou wast faithful over few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: come thou into the joy of thy lord. And the one having received one talent also coming, said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art a hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strewn: and being afraid, having gone away, I hid thy talent in the earth: behold, thou hast thine own. And his Lord responding said to him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, didst thou know that I gather where I have not sown, and reap where I have not strewn? Therefore it behooved thee to put my money in the bank, and having come, I would receive my own with the product. Therefore take the talent from him, and give it to the one having ten talents. For to every one having it shall be given, and he shall superabound: but from the one not having shall be taken away even that which he has. And cast ye the unprofitable servant into the darkness which is without: and there shall be weeping and gnashing of the teeth.

Then He said, A certain nobleman went to a far country, to receive for himself a kingdom, and return. And calling his ten servants, he gave to them ten pounds, and said to them, Operate till I come. But his citizens continued to hate him, and sent an embassy after him, saying, We do not wish this man to rule over us.read more.
And it came to pass, when he returned, having received the kingdom, and he said, that those servants should be called, to whom he had given the money, in order that he might know what each one had gained by their merchandise. And the first came, saying, Lord, thy pound has gained ten pounds. And he said to him, Well done, thou good servant: because thou hast been faithful in the least, have thou authority over ten cities. And the second one came, saying, Lord, thy pound has gained five pounds. And he also said to him, Be thou over five cities. And the other one came, saying, Lord, behold, thy pound, which I had laid away in a napkin: for I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up that which thou hadst not laid down, and thou reapest that which thou hast not sown. And he says to him, Out of thine own mouth I will judge thee, thou wicked servant. Didst thou know that I am an austere man, taking up what I have not laid down, and reaping what I have not sown? Wherefore indeed didst thou not put my money in the bank? and having come I would have received the same with the product. And he said to the bystanders, Take the pound from him, and give it to the one having ten pounds. And they said to him, Lord, he has ten pounds. I say unto you, that to every one having it shall be given; and from every one not having, it shall be taken away even that which he hath. Moreover bring these my enemies, not wishing me to rule over them, hither, and slay them before me.

For indeed when we were with you, we proclaimed this to you, that if any one does not wish to work, let him not eat. For we hear that there are certain ones walking about among you disorderly, doing nothing, but they are busybodies: