20 Bible Verses about Work Ethic

This saying is trustworthy and I want you [in your teaching] to affirm these things with confidence, so that those people who have trusted God will be careful to devote themselves to doing good deeds. These things [i.e., just mentioned] are good and profitable for people [to do].

We do not want you people to be [spiritually] slack, but to imitate those who will inherit [God's] promises because of their faith and patience.

God is Spirit and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."

Now wages are not considered a gift if the person has to work for them, but [rather] an obligation [of his employer].

These people claim to know God [as Savior], but they deny Him by their actions, so they are detestable and disobedient and unfit for doing anything good.

After you have warned a divisive person twice, have nothing more to do with him [i.e., withdraw spiritual fellowship from him].

Seeing the large crowds, Jesus went up in a mountain [i.e., probably a hill near Capernaum] and when He sat down, His disciples came to Him.

but at the proper time revealed [it] through the message entrusted to me to proclaim, by the commandment of God our Savior.

but if [it happens to be] of God, you will not be able to defeat them. And [if you try to], you may [actually] be fighting against [the work of] God."

to slander no one, to be peaceful, to be considerate [or, "gentle"] and to show every courtesy to all people.

Everything is pure [i.e., ceremonially acceptable] to the person who is pure [i.e., who has been cleansed by the blood of Christ], but to those who are [spiritually] corrupt, and do not believe [in Christ], nothing is pure, but both their minds and consciences are corrupted. [Note: This statement was intended to remove the physical restrictions imposed by the law of Moses].

But you should avoid foolish arguments, and [pointless] discussions about ancestors, and quarrels and disputes about [observance of] the law of Moses, for they are unprofitable and useless.

We overthrow [vain] reasonings and every lofty idea raised against the knowledge of God [i.e., as revealed through the Gospel], and take captive [our] every thought to [make it] obey Christ.

Upon saying this, Jesus breathed on the disciples and said to them, "[Be willing to] receive the Holy Spirit." [Note: This "breathing" served as a pledge of the Holy Spirit which actually came on these apostles a few weeks later. See Acts 1:5-8; 2:4].

But none [of the outsiders] dared to associate with the disciples, yet the [majority of the] people commended them.

But when the Jewish officials heard this, they were deeply convicted in their hearts and determined to kill the apostles.

Even one of their own prophets said, "The people of Crete are always liars, vicious beasts and lazy gluttons."

whom God poured out upon us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior.

And so now I say, hold off your accusations and let these men alone, for if their planning and effort is [merely] of human origin, it will be defeated,

And many [miraculous] signs and wonders were performed through the apostles' hands in front of the people. And all [the disciples] were united together in "Solomon's Portico" [See 3:11].