15 Bible Verses about Work, Divine And Human

I am the Vine, you are the branches. He that remains united to me, while I remain united to him--he bears fruit plentifully; for you can do nothing apart from me.

But the Lord said to him: "Go, for this man is my chosen instrument to uphold my Name before the Gentiles and their kings, and the people of Israel.

This, too, is the reason for your paying taxes; for the officials are God's officers, devoting themselves to this special work.

But God, who encourages the downcast, has encouraged us by the arrival of Titus.

while one who does not know his master's wishes, but acts so as to deserve a flogging, will receive but few. From every one to whom much has been given much will be expected, and from the man to whom much has been entrusted the more will be demanded.

When any one speaks, let him speak as one who is delivering the oracles of God. When any one is endeavoring to serve others, let him do so in reliance on the strength which God supplies; so that in everything God may be honour ed through Jesus Christ--to whom be ascribed all honour and might for ever and ever. Amen.

I do not mean that we are fit to form any judgment by ourselves, as if on our own authority;

For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's harvest field, God's building.

Therefore, as God's fellow-workers, we also appeal to you not to receive his loving-kindness in vain.

But they set out, and made the proclamation everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the Message by the signs which attended it.

Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always been obedient in the past, so now work out your own Salvation with anxious care, not only when I am with you, but all the more now that I am absent. Remember it is God who, in his kindness, is at work within you, enabling you both to will and to work.

Therefore neither the man who plants, nor the man who waters, is of any account, but only God who causes the growth.

We would remind you, Brothers, of the love that God has shown to the Churches in Macedonia-- How, tired though they were by many a trouble, their overflowing happiness, and even their deep poverty, resulted in a flood of generosity. I can bear witness that to the full extent of their power, and even beyond their power, spontaneously,read more.
And with many an appeal to us for permission, they showed their love, and contributed their share towards the fund for their fellow-Christians. And that, not only in the way we had expected; but first they gave themselves to the Lord, and to us also, in accordance with God's will.

All this happened in fulfillment of these words of the Lord in the Prophet, where he says--

for no prophetic teaching ever came in the old days at the mere wish of man, but men, moved by the Holy Spirit, spoke direct from God.