33 Bible Verses about working

While daylight lasts, we must be busy with the work of God: night comes, when no one can do any work.

varieties of effects, but the same God who effects everything in everyone.

Whatever be your task, work at it heartily, as servants of the Lord and not of men;

but then I find quite another law in my members which conflicts with the law of my mind and makes me a prisoner to sin's law that resides in my members.

I labour for that end, striving for it with the divine energy which is a power within me.

We know also that those who love God, those who have been called in terms of his purpose, have his aid and interest in everything.

for it is God who in his goodwill enables you to will this and to achieve it.

but in every case the nature of his work will come out; the Day will show what it is, for the Day breaks in fire, and the fire will test the work of each, no matter what that work may be.

of this I am confident, that he who has begun the good work in you will go on completing it until the day of Jesus Christ.

We used to charge you even when we were with you, 'If a man will not work, he shall not eat.'

Blessed is that servant if his lord and master finds him so doing when he arrives!

The reply of Jesus was, "As my Father has continued working to this hour, so I work too."

furnish you with everything for the doing of his will, creating in your lives by Jesus Christ what is acceptable in his own sight! To him be glory for ever and ever: Amen.

Then they asked him, "What must we do to perform the works of God?"

Do you not know that as men who perform temple-rites get their food from the temple, and as attendants at the altar get their share of the sacrifices,

The man went to the second and said the same to him; he replied, 'I will not,' but afterwards he changed his mind and did go.

Brothers, you recollect our hard labour and toil, how we worked at our trade night and day, when we preached the gospel to you, so as not to be a burden to any of you.

'These last,' they said, 'have only worked a single hour, and yet you have ranked them equal to us who have borne the brunt of the day's work and the heat!'

We work together in God's service; you are God's field to be planted, God's house to be built.

for what you have contributed to the gospel from the very first day down to this moment;

I know your doings, your love and loyalty and service and patient endurance; I know you are doing more than you did at first.

So faith, unless it has deeds, is dead in itself.

So your light is to shine before men, that they may see the good you do and glorify your Father in heaven.

Now a worker has his wage counted to him as a due, not as a favour;