20 Bible Verses about Work Ethic

This is a trustworthy teaching, and I want you to insist on these things, so that those who believe in God may make it their business to do good. All this is right and beneficial to mankind.

so that you may never grow careless, but may learn to follow the example of those who through their faith and endurance are the possessors of God's promises.

God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship him in spirit and in sincerity."

Now paying a workman is not considered a favor, but an obligation,

They profess to know God, but they disown him by what they do; they are detestable, disobedient men, worthless for any good purpose.

If a man is inclined to a sect, after warning him once or twice, have nothing more to do with him.

When he saw the crowds of people he went up on the mountain. There he seated himself, and when his disciples had come up to him,

and revealed at the proper time in his message, through the preaching with which I have been intrusted at the command of God our Savior,

but if it is from God, you will not be able to stop it. You may actually find yourselves fighting God!"

to abuse nobody, to be peaceable and reasonable, showing perfect gentleness to everyone.

To the pure everything is pure, but to the evil-minded and unbelieving nothing is pure, but their very minds and consciences are unclean.

But have nothing to do with foolish controversies, pedigrees, strife, and wrangles about the Law, for they are profitless and futile.

I destroy arguments and every obstacle that is raised against the knowledge of God, and I take captive every thought and make it obey Christ,

As he said this he breathed upon them, and said,

None of the others dared to associate with them, but the people made much of them,

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

It was a Cretan, a prophet of their own, who said, "Cretans are always liars, savage brutes, lazy gluttons,"

which he has poured out upon us abundantly 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 idea or movement is of human origin, it will come to naught,

They would all meet together in Solomon's Colonnade.