29 Bible Verses about Work, Divine And Human

Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the LORDwatches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.

So the LORD dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.

I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

You led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

But the Lord said to him, "Go, for he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel.

For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing.

But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus,

and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with ability and intelligence, with knowledge and all craftsmanship,

But the one who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, will receive a light beating. Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more.

whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies--in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

You shall remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.

Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands upon us; yes, establish the work of our hands!

For they all wanted to frighten us, thinking, "Their hands will drop from the work, and it will not be done." But now, O God, strengthen my hands.

Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God,

For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field, God's building.

Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by accompanying signs.]]

Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.

Give ear, and hear my voice; give attention, and hear my speech. Does he who plows for sowing plow continually? Does he continually open and harrow his ground? When he has leveled its surface, does he not scatter dill, sow cumin, and put in wheat in rows and barley in its proper place, and emmer as the border?read more.
For he is rightly instructed; his God teaches him. Dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge, nor is a cart wheel rolled over cumin, but dill is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod. Does one crush grain for bread? No, he does not thresh it forever; when he drives his cart wheel over it with his horses, he does not crush it. This also comes from the LORD of hosts; he is wonderful in counsel and excellent in wisdom.

So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.

"Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to feed you."

We want you to know, brothers, about the grace of God that has been given among the churches of Macedonia, for in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part. For they gave according to their means, as I can testify, and beyond their means, of their own accord,read more.
begging us earnestly for the favor of taking part in the relief of the saints-- and this, not as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then by the will of God to us.

"The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers--it is to him you shall listen-- just as you desired of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, 'Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die.' And the LORD said to me, 'They are right in what they have spoken.read more.
I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.

and sent a message by Nathan the prophet. So he called his name Jedidiah, because of the LORD.

But neither he nor his servants nor the people of the land listened to the words of the LORD that he spoke through Jeremiah the prophet.

By a prophet the LORD brought Israel up from Egypt, and by a prophet he was guarded.

All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet:

For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.