Bible Verses About Toil and Labor

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

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

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

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

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

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:

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

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?

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?

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour’s service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;

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

Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

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.

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?