20 Bible Verses about Work Ethic

The word is true, and I wish you to insist strongly concerning these things, that those who have believed in God may be careful to maintain good works. For these things are honorable and useful to men.

that you be not stupid, but followers of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

God is a Spirit, and those that worship him must worship in spirit and truth.

But to one that works the reward is not accounted by grace but by debt.

They profess to know God, but by works deny him, being abominable and disobedient, and as to every good work reprobate.

A man that is a heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject,

AND seeing the multitudes, he went on the mountain and sat down; and his disciples came to him.

but manifested his word in the times which were suitable for it by the preaching with which I was intrusted, according to the command of our Saviour God,

but if it is from God, you cannot destroy them; lest you be found at some time to be fighting against God.

to speak evil of no one, to be peaceable, gentle, showing all meekness to all men.

To the pure all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but their mind and conscience are defiled.

But foolish questions, and genealogies, and strifes and contentions about the law, avoid; for they are unprofitable and vain.

destroying [false] reasonings and every height which is exalted against the knowledge of God, and subjecting every thought to the obedience of Christ,

And having said this he breathed on them, and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit.

and no one of the rest dared to join them, but the people magnified them;

And when they heard this they were highly offended, and took counsel to kill them.

A certain one of them, their own poet, said, Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gormandizers.

which he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;

And now I tell you, abstain from these men, and let them alone; because if this design, or this work, is from men, it will be destroyed;

And many miracles and prodigies were performed among the people by the hands of the apostles; and they were all of one accord in Solomon's porch;