20 Bible Verses about Work Ethic

This is a trustworthy saying; and concerning these things I want you to speak confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to devote themselves to good deeds. These things are excellent and profitable for men.

so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."

Now to him who works, his wages are not reckoned as a gift but as his due.

They profess to know God, but they deny him by their deeds; they are detestable and disobedient, unfit for any good deed.

Warn a man who is factious once, and then warn him a second time. After that, have nothing to do with him,

Seeing the crowds, he went up on a mountain, and when he sat down his disciples came to him.

and at the proper time manifested in his word through the preaching with which I have been entrusted by the command of God our Savior,

but if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them; or else you may even be found fighting against God."

to speak evil of no one, to be peaceable and gentle, and to show true humility toward all men.

To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are corrupted and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their minds and consciences are corrupted.

But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and strife and quarrels about the Law, for they are unprofitable and useless.

We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ,

And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit.

None of the rest dared join them, but the people held them in high honor.

When they heard this, they were furious and wanted to kill them.

One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons."

whom he poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior,

So in the present case I tell you, keep away from these men and let them alone, for if this plan or action is of men, it will fail;

Now many signs and wonders were done among the people by the hands of the apostles. And they were all together in Solomon's Porch.