Bible Verses About Labor and Struggle

Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

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

And they journeyed from Beth–el; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.

A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.

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

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

And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the Lord.

Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.

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

He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

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

Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O Lord.

And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins were in her womb.

And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.

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.

And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.

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.

Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.

And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.

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:

Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.

Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the Lord shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.

Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God.

Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.

But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.

And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the Lord had shut up her womb.

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

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

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

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.

And when we cried unto the Lord God of our fathers, the Lord heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression:

We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.

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

Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.