Bible Verses About Labor and Reward

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

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

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

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

Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.

The Lord recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.

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

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

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

And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.

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

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

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

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

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.

If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.

Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.

As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:

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.

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.

Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.

Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.

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

And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.

The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.

Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion.

That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.

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

The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.

To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.

There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.

If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

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.

Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man according to his work.

And the Lord thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the Lord will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:

What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits toward me?

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.

Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.