Bible Verses About Toil

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

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

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:

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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?

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

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.

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?

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.

Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.

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

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

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

But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.

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.

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

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.

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

I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.

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