40 Bible Verses about Work Ethic
Most Relevant Verses
Be not overly righteous, and do not make yourself too wise. Why should you destroy yourself?
If he should set his heart to it and gather to himself his spirit and his breath,
The saying is trustworthy, and I want you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to devote themselves to good works. These things are excellent and profitable for people.
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 the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due.
Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and prolongs his life, yet I know that it will be well with those who fear God, because they fear before him.
When he is quiet, who can condemn? When he hides his face, who can behold him, whether it be a nation or a man?--
So Moses gave command, and word was proclaimed throughout the camp, "Let no man or woman do anything more for the contribution for the sanctuary." So the people were restrained from bringing,
They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.
As for a person who stirs up division, after warning him once and then twice, have nothing more to do with him,
Seeing the crowds, he went up on the 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 as for me, I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.
but if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them. You might even be found opposing God!" So they took his advice,
to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all people.
To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their consciences are defiled.
Shall one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty,
But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.
We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,
And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit.
A day for the building of your walls! In that day the boundary shall be far extended.
Look at the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds, which are higher than you.
"For has anyone said to God, 'I have borne punishment; I will not offend any more;
For according to the work of a man he will repay him, and according to his ways he will make it befall him.
One of the Cretans, a prophet of their own, said, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons."
"Therefore, hear me, you men of understanding: far be it from God that he should do wickedness, and from the Almighty that he should do wrong.
Of a truth, God will not do wickedly, and the Almighty will not pervert justice.
So in the present case I tell you, keep away from these men and let them alone, for if this plan or this undertaking is of man, it will fail;
Now many signs and wonders were regularly done among the people by the hands of the apostles. And they were all together in Solomon's Portico.
He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not split open under them.
