Bible Verses About Human Endeavor

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

And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.

What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.

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

Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.

Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.

A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth: and the recompence of a man’s hands shall be rendered unto him.

Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded.

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

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

Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church.

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

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.

But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.

He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.

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.

Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.

And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps.

Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have.

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