'Working' in the Bible
"These last fellows worked only one hour, but you paid them the same as us, and we've been working all day, enduring the scorching heat!'
Then his disciples went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord kept working with them and confirming the message by the signs that accompanied it.
But Jesus answered them, "My Father has been working until now, and I, too, am working."
In every way I showed you that by working hard like this we should help the weak and remember the words that the Lord Jesus himself said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"
And we know that for those who love God, that is, for those who are called according to his purpose, all things are working together for good.
We wear ourselves out from working with our own hands. When insulted, we bless. When persecuted, we endure.
Or is it only Barnabas and I who have to keep on working for a living?
Since, then, we are working with God, we plead with you not to accept God's grace in vain.
and the unlimited greatness of his power for us who believe, according to the working of his mighty strength,
I have become a servant of this gospel according to the gift of God's grace that was given me by the working of his power.
Now to the one who can do infinitely more than all we can ask or imagine according to the power that is working among us
We hear that some of you are living in idleness. You are not busy working you are busy interfering in other people's lives!