Bible Verses About Employment

Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.

For the work of a man shall he render unto him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.

What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?

Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.

Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.

For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.

For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.

And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?

For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.

Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.

And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What is your occupation?

And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.

Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.

Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.

For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour’s service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;

In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;

He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.

Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.

Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

Moreover there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all manner of cunning men for every manner of work.

For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men every one against his neighbour.

At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the Lord, and it be sin unto thee.

Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work:

And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey.

They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive.

I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.

Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.

Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:

And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.

And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work.

But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat?

All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.

Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;

And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin.