Bible Verses About Work and Labor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.

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

Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the Lord: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death.

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

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

Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.

Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings.

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.

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

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.

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

Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.

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

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 Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were 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.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

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.

In the first day shall be an holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work therein:

The gold for things of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and for all manner of work to be made by the hands of artificers. And who then is willing to consecrate his service this day unto the Lord?