7 Bible Verses about Working Hard And Not Being Lazy

be not slothful in business, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord,

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

Concerning whom we have much to say, and that which is difficult to explain, because you have become dull of hearing.

For when we were with you, we gave you this charge, that if any one will not work, neither let him eat.

For we hear that some go about among you in a disorderly manner, not working, but being above work;

as also in all his epistles speaking of these things, in which are some things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest as they also do the other Scriptures to their destruction.

Wherefore, beloved, looking for these things, be diligent that you may be found in him without a spot and blemish, in peace,