Bible Verses About Labor and Toil

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

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

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:

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.

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.

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

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

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

All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

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.

But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat?

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.

And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.