Bible Verses About Human Labor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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:

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

Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.

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

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

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

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.

Behold, is it not of the Lord of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?

He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.

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;

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

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.

And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.

In the first day shall be an holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work therein:

And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.

Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the Lord: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death.

Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.

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

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.

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:

Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.

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

Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

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.

They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord, and their offspring with them.

Render unto them a recompence, O Lord, according to the work of their hands.

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

Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.