'Work' in the Bible

The appearance of the wheels and their work was as the look of a chrysolite; and they four had one likeness; and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.

Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?

Behold, it is given to the fire for fuel: the fire consumeth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned; is it fit for any work?

Behold, when it was whole, it was used for no work; how much less when the fire hath consumed it, and it is burned, should it yet be used for any work?

and I clothed thee with embroidered work, and shod thee with badgers' skin, and I bound thee about with byssus, and covered thee with silk.

Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver, and thy raiment was byssus, and silk, and embroidered work. Thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil; and thou becamest exceedingly beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom.

How weak is thy heart, saith the Lord Jehovah, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of a whorish woman, under no restraint;

Byssus with broidered work from Egypt was thy sail, to serve thee for a banner; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was thine awning.

Syria dealt with thee for the multitude of thy handiworks: they traded in thy markets with carbuncles, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and corals, and rubies.

these traded with thee in sumptuous clothes, in wrappings of blue and broidered work, and in chests full of variegated stuffs, bound with cords and made of cedar-wood, amongst thy merchandise.

Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbour's wife; and shall ye possess the land?

And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully, and he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.

Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity; it is tracked with blood.

And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.

Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Thou art our God; because in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.

Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy statues out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more bow down to the work of thy hands.

See ye among the nations, and behold, and wonder marvellously; for I work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be declared to you.

What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it? the molten image, and the teacher of falsehood, that the maker of his work dependeth thereon, to make dumb idols?

Jehovah, I heard the report of thee, and I feared. Jehovah, revive thy work in the midst of the years, In the midst of the years make it known: In wrath remember mercy!

And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the crowd of beasts; both the pelican and the bittern shall lodge in the chapiters thereof; a voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be on the thresholds: for he hath laid bare the cedar work.

The remnant of Israel shall not work unrighteousness, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: but they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

But now be strong, Zerubbabel, saith Jehovah; and be strong, Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith Jehovah, and work: for I am with you, saith Jehovah of hosts.

Then answered Haggai and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith Jehovah, and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.

I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the work of your hands; and ye turned not to me, saith Jehovah.

And now we hold the proud for happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and they escape.

For behold, the day cometh, burning as a furnace; and all the proud and all that work wickedness shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith Jehovah of hosts, so that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

And when they who came to work about the eleventh hour came, they received each a denarius.

But what think ye? A man had two children, and coming to the first he said, Child, go to-day, work in my vineyard.

But Jesus knowing it said to them, Why do ye trouble the woman? for she has wrought a good work toward me.

And he could not do any work of power there, save that laying his hands on a few infirm persons he healed them.

it is as a man gone out of the country, having left his house and given to his bondmen the authority, and to each one his work, and commanded the doorkeeper that he should watch.

But Jesus said, Let her alone; why do ye trouble her? she has wrought a good work as to me;

But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus healed on the sabbath, answering said to the crowd, There are six days in which people ought to work; in these therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.

Jesus says to them, My food is that I should do the will of him that has sent me, and that I should finish his work.

But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto and I work.

Work not for the food which perishes, but for the food which abides unto life eternal, which the Son of man shall give to you; for him has the Father sealed, even God.

They said therefore to him, What should we do that we may work the works of God?

Jesus answered and said to them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he has sent.

They said therefore to him, What sign then doest thou that we may see and believe thee? what dost thou work?

Jesus answered and said to them, I have done one work, and ye all wonder.

I must work the works of him that has sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewn you of my Father; for which work of them do ye stone me?

The Jews answered him, For a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy, and because thou, being a man, makest thyself God.

I have glorified thee on the earth, I have completed the work which thou gavest me that I should do it;

And now I say to you, Withdraw from these men and let them alone, for if this counsel or this work have its origin from men, it will be destroyed;

And as they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, Separate me now Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.

Behold, ye despisers, and wonder and perish; for I work a work in your days, a work which ye will in no wise believe if one declare it to you.

and thence they sailed away to Antioch, whence they had been committed to the grace of God for the work which they had fulfilled.

but Paul thought it not well to take with them him who had abandoned them, going back from Pamphylia, and had not gone with them to the work.

whom having brought together, and those who wrought in such things, he said, Men, ye know that our well-living arises from this work,

who shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts accusing or else excusing themselves between themselves;)

but to him who does not work, but believes on him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is reckoned as righteousness.

But we do know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to purpose.

For rulers are not a terror to a good work, but to an evil one. Dost thou desire then not to be afraid of the authority? practise what is good, and thou shalt have praise from it;

For the sake of meat do not destroy the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil to that man who eats while stumbling in doing so.

the work of each shall be made manifest; for the day shall declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire shall try the work of each what it is.

If the work of any one which he has built upon the foundation shall abide, he shall receive a reward.

If the work of any one shall be consumed, he shall suffer loss, but he shall be saved, but so as through the fire.

Am I not free? am I not an apostle? have I not seen Jesus our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?

Or I alone and Barnabas, have we not a right not to work?

So then, my beloved brethren, be firm, immovable, abounding always in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord.

Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear; for he works the work of the Lord, even as I.

that ye should also be subject to such, and to every one joined in the work and labouring.

But God is able to make every gracious gift abound towards you, that, having in every way always all-sufficiency, ye may abound to every good work:

but let each prove his own work, and then he will have his boast in what belongs to himself alone, and not in what belongs to another.

for the perfecting of the saints; with a view to the work of the ministry, with a view to the edifying of the body of Christ;

who having cast off all feeling, have given themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greedy unsatisfied lust.

having confidence of this very thing, that he who has begun in you a good work will complete it unto Jesus Christ's day:

So that, my beloved, even as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much rather in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,

But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child a father, he has served with me in the work of the glad tidings.

because for the sake of the work he drew near even to death, venturing his life that he might fill up what lacked in your ministration toward me.

so as to walk worthily of the Lord unto all well-pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and growing by the true knowledge of God;

remembering unceasingly your work of faith, and labour of love, and enduring constancy of hope, of our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

and to seek earnestly to be quiet and mind your own affairs, and work with your own hands, even as we charged you,

and to regard them exceedingly in love on account of their work. Be in peace among yourselves.

To which end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of the calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness and the work of faith with power,

encourage your hearts, and establish you in every good work and word.

For also when we were with you we enjoined you this, that if any man does not like to work, neither let him eat.

The word is faithful: if any one aspires to exercise oversight, he desires a good work.

borne witness to in good works, if she have brought up children, if she have exercised hospitality, if she have washed saints' feet, if she have imparted relief to the distressed, if she have diligently followed every good work.

If therefore one shall have purified himself from these, in separating himself from them, he shall be a vessel to honour, sanctified, serviceable to the Master, prepared for every good work.

that the man of God may be complete, fully fitted to every good work.

But thou, be sober in all things, bear evils, do the work of an evangelist, fill up the full measure of thy ministry.

The Lord shall deliver me from every wicked work, and shall preserve me for his heavenly kingdom; to whom be glory for the ages of ages. Amen.

They profess to know God, but in works deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and found worthless as to every good work.

discreet, chaste, diligent in home work, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.

Put them in mind to be subject to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient to rule, to be ready to do every good work,

For God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the love which ye have shewn to his name, having ministered to the saints, and still ministering.

perfect you in every good work to the doing of his will, doing in you what is pleasing before him through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for the ages of ages. Amen.

But let endurance have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

for man's wrath does not work God's righteousness.

But he that fixes his view on the perfect law, that of liberty, and abides in it, being not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, he shall be blessed in his doing.

And if ye invoke as Father him who, without regard of persons, judges according to the work of each, pass your time of sojourn in fear,

And it deceives those that dwell upon the earth by reason of the signs which it was given to it to work before the beast, saying to those that dwell upon the earth to make an image to the beast, which has the wound of the sword, and lived.

Behold, I come quickly, and my reward with me, to render to every one as his work shall be.