40 Bible Verses about Work Ethic
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Do not be righteous overmuch, neither make yourself overwise; why destroy yourself?
If He sets His heart on man, if He gathers to Himself his spirit and his breath,
Faithful is the Word, and as to these things, I desire that you strongly affirm that those believing God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men.
that you be not slothful, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
God is a spirit, and they who worship Him must worship in spirit and in truth.
But to him working, the reward is not reckoned according to grace, but according to debt.
Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days be made longer, yet surely I know that it shall be well with those who fear God, who fear before Him.
And He gives quietness, who then can condemn? And when He hides His face, who can behold Him? And it may be against a nation and a man together;
And Moses commanded, and they caused it to be known throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. And the people were kept from bringing.
They profess that they know God, but in their works they deny Him, being abominable and disobedient and reprobate to every good work.
And seeing the multitudes, He went up into a mountain. And when He had sat down, His disciples came to Him.
but revealed His Word in its own times in a proclamation, with which I was entrusted by the command of God our Savior,)
Therefore I will look to Jehovah; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me!
He strikes them for evil deeds in the place of the watchers,
But if it is of God, you cannot overthrow it, lest perhaps you be found even to fight against God.
to speak evil of no one, not being quarrelsome, but forbearing, showing all meekness to all men.
To the pure all things are pure. But to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure, but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
Shall one who hates right govern? And will you condemn Him who is just and mighty?
But avoid foolish questions and genealogies and contentions, and strivings about the Law, for they are unprofitable and vain.
pulling down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought into the obedience of Christ;
And when He had said this, He breathed on them and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit.
In the day that your walls are to be built, in that day the decree shall be far removed.
Look to the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds; they are higher than you.
And of the rest no one dared to join himself to them, but the people magnified them;
But those hearing were cut to the heart, and they took counsel to kill them.
One of them, a prophet of their own, said, Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.
Therefore listen to me, O man of heart; far be it from God to commit iniquity; and from the Almighty, to do wrong.
whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior,
Yes, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert justice.
And now I say to you, Withdraw from these men and let them alone. For if this counsel or this work is of men, it will come to nothing.
And many miracles and wonders were done among the people by the hands of the apostles; and they were all with one accord in Solomon's Porch.
He quiets the sea with His power, and by His understanding He shatters the proud.
