Bible Verses About Labour

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

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.

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

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

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

And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.

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

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

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?

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:

That our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets.

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

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.

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 when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. Salute the beloved Persis, which laboured much in the Lord.

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.

They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.

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.

Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?

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

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.

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

Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.