49 Bible Verses about Work

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1 Thessalonians 4:11-12

Make it your ambition to live quietly, and to attend to your own business, and to work with your hands, as we directed you; So that your conduct may win respect from those outside the Church, and that you may not want for anything.

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Deceit » The wicked » Work

Deceit » Work

Satan's » Work » Instigating men to sin

John 13:2

The Devil had already put the thought of betraying Jesus into the mind of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon;

Satan's » Work » Tempting to disobedience

Satan's » Work » Preying upon men

Satan's » Work » Tempting Christ

Satan's » Work » Ruining the soul and body

Luke 13:16

But this woman, a daughter of Abraham, who has been kept in bondage by Satan for now eighteen years, ought not she to have been released from her bondage on the Sabbath?"

Luke 9:42

While the boy was coming up to Jesus, the demon dashed him down and threw him into convulsions. But Jesus rebuked the foul spirit, and cured the boy, and gave him back to his father.

Satan's » Work » Slandering saints

Satan's » Work » Sowing the tares

Matthew 13:38-39

The field is the world. By the good seed is meant the People of the Kingdom. The tares are the wicked, And the enemy who sowed them is the Devil. The harvest-time is the close of the age, and the reapers are angels.

Satan's » Work » Removing the good seed

Matthew 13:19

When any one hears the Message of the Kingdom without understanding it, the Evil One comes and snatches away what has been sown in his mind. This is the man meant by the seed which was sown along the path.

Satan's » Work » Opposing the righteous

Satan's » Work » The malignant work of

Satan's » Work » Lying

Satan's » Work » Inflicting disease

Topics on Work

Angels Doing God's Work

Matthew 28:2-7

When suddenly a great earthquake occurred. For an angel of the Lord descended from Heaven, and came and rolled away the stone, and seated himself upon it.

Divine Work Of The Holy Spirit

Romans 8:2-11

For through your union with Christ Jesus, the Law of the life- giving Spirit has set you free from the Law of Sin and Death.

Doing One's Work

Luke 13:14

But the President of the Synagogue, indignant that Jesus had worked the cure on the Sabbath, interposed and said to the people: "There are six days on which work ought to be done; come to be cured on one of those, and not on the Sabbath."

Good Works

Acts 10:37-38

You yourselves know the story which spread through all Judea, how, beginning form Galilee, after the baptism which John proclaimed--

Hard Work

John 4:38

I have sent you to reap that on which you have spent no labor; others have labored, and you have entered upon the results of their labor."

Hindering God's Work

Romans 1:13

I want you to know, Brothers, that I have many times intended coming to see you-but until now I have been prevented-that I might find among you some fruit of my labors, as I have already among the other nations.

Incomplete Works

Revelation 3:2

Be on the watch, and strengthen what still survives, though once it was all but dead; for I have not found your life perfect in the eyes of my God.

Justified By Works

James 2:21

Look at our ancestor, Abraham. Was not it the result of his actions that he was pronounced righteous after he had offered his son, Isaac, on the altar?

Man's Work Finished

Matthew 26:50

On which Jesus said to him: "Friend, do what you have come for." Thereupon the men went up, seized Jesus, and arrested him.

Salvation Not By Works

Ephesians 2:8-9

For it is by God's loving-kindness that you have been saved, through your faith. It is not due to yourselves; the gift is God's.

The Work Of Fools

Matthew 7:26

And every one that listens to this teaching of mine and does not act upon it may be compared to a foolish man, who built his house on the sand.

The Work Of The Wise

Matthew 7:24

Everyone, therefore, that listens to this teaching of mine and acts upon it may be compared to a prudent man, who built his house upon the rock.

Work As To Christ

Ephesians 6:6

Not only when their eyes are on you, as if you had merely to please men, but as slaves of Christ, who are trying to carry out the will of God.

Work Ethic

Titus 3:8

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.

Work Soon Done

John 13:27

And it was then, after he had received it, that Satan took possession of him. So Jesus said to him: "Do at once what you are going to do."

Work, And Redemption

Ephesians 2:8-9

For it is by God's loving-kindness that you have been saved, through your faith. It is not due to yourselves; the gift is God's.

Work, And Rest

Mark 6:30-32

When the Apostles came back to Jesus, they told him all that they had done and all that they had taught.

Work, And The Fall

2 Thessalonians 3:10-11

Indeed, when we were with you, what we urged upon you was-- 'If a man does not choose to work, then he shall not eat.'

Work, As Ordained By God

1 Thessalonians 4:12

So that your conduct may win respect from those outside the Church, and that you may not want for anything.

Works Of Faith

James 2:14

My Brothers, what is the good of a man's saying that he has faith, if he does not prove it by actions? Can such faith save him?

Works Of The Law

Romans 10:5

For Moses writes that, as for the righteousness which results from Law, 'those who practice it will find Life through it.'

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