Bible Verses About Laboring

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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:

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;

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

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

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

O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!

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

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?

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