33 Bible Verses about working

We must do the work of him who sent me, while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.

Results differ, yet the God who brings about every result is in every case the same.

Whatever you do, do it with all your heart, as if working for the Master and not for men,

But throughout my body I see a different law, one which is in conflict with the law accepted by my reason, and which endeavors to make me a prisoner to that law of Sin which exists throughout my body.

It is for that I toil, struggling with all the energy which he inspires and which works powerfully within me.

But we do know that God causes all things to work together for the good of those who love him-those who have received the Call in accordance with his purpose.

Remember it is God who, in his kindness, is at work within you, enabling you both to will and to work.

The quality of each man's work will become known, for the Day will make it plain; because that Day is to be ushered in with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of every man's work.

For of this I am confident, that he who began a good work in you will complete it in readiness for the Day of Jesus Christ.

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.'

Happy will that servant be whom his master, when he comes home, shall find doing this.

But Jesus replied: "My Father works to this very hour, and I work also."

may God make you perfect in everything that is good, so that you may be able to do his will. May he bring out in us all that is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be all glory for ever and ever. Amen.

"How," they asked, "are we to do the work that God would have us do?"

Do not you know that those who do the work of the Temple live on what comes from the Temple, and that those who serve at the altar share the offerings with the altar?

Then the father went to the second son, and said the same. 'I will not,' he answered; but afterwards he was sorry and went.

You will not have forgotten, Brothers, our labor and toil. Night and day we used to work at our trades, so as not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you God's Good News.

'These last,' they said, 'have done only one hour's work, and yet you have put them on the same footing with us, who have borne the brunt of the day's work, and the heat.'

For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's harvest field, God's building.

Because of the share that you have had in spreading the Good News, from the first day that you received it until now.

I know your life, your love, faith, service, and endurance; and I know that your life of late has been better than it was at first.

In just the same way faith, if not followed by actions, is, by itself, a lifeless thing.

Let your light so shine before the eyes of your fellow men, that, seeing your good actions, they may praise your Father who is in Heaven.

Now wages are regarded as due to the man who works, not as a favor, but as a debt;