20 Bible Verses about Work Ethic
Most Relevant Verses
How true that saying is! And it is on these subjects that I desire you to lay especial stress, so that those who have learned to trust in God may be careful to devote themselves to doing good. Such subjects are excellent in themselves, and of real use to mankind.
Then you will not show yourselves slow to learn, but you will copy those who, through faith and patience, are now entering upon the enjoyment of God's promises.
God is Spirit; and those who worship him must worship spiritually and truly."
Now wages are regarded as due to the man who works, not as a favor, but as a debt;
They profess to know God, but by their actions they disown him. They are degraded and self-willed; and, as far as anything good is concerned, they are utterly worthless.
If a man is causing divisions among you, after warning him once or twice, have nothing more to say to him.
On seeing the crowds of People, Jesus went up the hill; and, when he had taken his seat, his disciples came up to him;
and has revealed at his own time in his Message, with the proclamation of which I was entrusted by the command of God our Savior.
But, if they are of divine origin, you will be powerless to put an end to them--or else you may find yourselves fighting against God!"
to be forbearing, and under all circumstances to show a gentle spirit in dealing with others, whoever they may be.
Everything is pure to the pure-minded, but to those whose minds are polluted and who are unbelievers nothing is pure. Their minds and consciences are alike polluted.
But have nothing to do with foolish discussions, or with genealogies, or with controversy, or disputes about the Law. They are useless and futile.
We are engaged in confuting arguments and pulling down every barrier raised against the knowledge of God. We are taking captive every hostile thought, to bring it into submission to the Christ,
After saying this, he breathed on them, and said: "Receive the Holy Spirit;
But of the rest no one ventured to join them. On the other hand, the people were full of their praise,
The members of the Council became frantic with rage on hearing this, and were for putting the Apostles to death.
It was a Cretan--one of their own teachers--who said: 'Cretans are always liars, base brutes, and gluttonous idlers'; and his statement is true.
And, in this present case, my advice to you is not to interfere with these men, but to let them alone, for, if their designs and their work are merely of human origin, they will come to an end;
Many signs and wonders continued to occur among the people, through the instrumentality of the Apostles, whose custom it was to meet all together in the Colonnade of Solomon;
