7 Bible Verses about Working Hard And Not Being Lazy

In your diligence be free from sloth. Be glowing in spirit. Slave for the master.

Then do not become slack, but be imitators of those who through faith and patience are inheriting the promises.

Concerning him I have much to say, and much that is hard to make clear to you, because you have grown dull of hearing.

For indeed when I was with you, I used to charge you, "If any man will not work, he shall not eat."

But I hear that there are those of your number who are leading idle and disorderly lives, who are not busy, but mere busybodies.

It is the same in all his letters when he speaks of these things. There are indeed some things in his letters hard to understand, which the ignorant and the shifty wrest, as also they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

And so, beloved, since you are looking for these things, continually give diligence that you may be found in peace, unspotted and blameless in his sight.