Bible Verses About Work and Responsibility

Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;

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

Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;

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

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?

Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God:

Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,

Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

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

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

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

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

With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.

Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

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

And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;

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:

And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless.

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.

And to esteem them very highly in love for their work’s sake. And be at peace among yourselves.

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

We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.

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

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

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

Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.

And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season?

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 let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.

Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

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

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

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

And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;

As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

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?