7 Bible Verses about Working Hard And Not Being Lazy

Never be lacking in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serving the Lord.

so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

About this we have much to say which is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.

For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: "If anyone will not work, he shall not eat."

For we hear that some among you are leading an undisciplined life, not doing any work at all, but acting like busybodies.

He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be found by him in peace, spotless and blameless.