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Bible Verses About Hard work

This collection includes 50 passages about Hard work. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

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What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?

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Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.

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

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

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Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

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

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And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:

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And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

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But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.

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Neither did we eat any man’s bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:

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

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Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

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I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

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

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For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

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He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

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The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.

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Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?

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

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Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

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Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed:

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The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.

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And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.

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The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.

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

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

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Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;

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

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

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And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;

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This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.

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

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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.

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Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

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We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.

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

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For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

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That ye submit yourselves unto such, and to every one that helpeth with us, and laboureth.

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For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

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