Bible Verses About Workplace Challenges

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

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;

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

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

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

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

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

Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.

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.

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

Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

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

But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

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

We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;

For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.

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

As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

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

And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,

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

Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

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.

For they all made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. Now therefore, O God, strengthen my hands.

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

For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Therefore was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might reproach me.

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

Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?

Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.