Bible Verses About Work and Labor

Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;

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

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

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

So we labored in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do: and behold, all [was] vanity and vexation of spirit, and [there was] no profit under the sun.

Then I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for naught, and in vain; [yet] surely my judgment [is] with the LORD, and my work with my God.

I know thy works, and thy labor, and thy patience, and that thou canst not bear them who are evil; and thou hast tried them who say they are apostles, and are not; and hast found them liars:

And labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it;

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with [his] hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

And I heard a voice from heaven, saying to me, Write, Blessed [are] the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth: Verily, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works follow them.

When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers; the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth the work of his hands.

Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavors: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.

And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall wisely consider of his doing.

The days of our years [are] seventy years; and if by reason of strength [they are] eighty years, yet [is] their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yes, the work of our hands establish thou it.

Incline not my heart to [any] evil thing, to practice wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.

But what think ye? A [certain] man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go, work to-day in my vineyard.

And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because Jesus had healed on the sabbath, and said to the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath.

I sent you to reap that on which ye bestowed no labor: other men labored, and ye have entered into their labors.

They said therefore to him, What sign showest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work?

The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy, and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.

Who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing testimony, and [their] thoughts the mean while accusing, or else excusing one another)

I speak after the manner of men, because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity, to ([work]) iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness, to ([work]) holiness.

And we know that all things work together for good, to them that love God, to them who are the called according to [his] purpose.

For he will finish the work, and cut [it] short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.

And if by grace, then [is it] no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.

Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labor in the Lord. Salute the beloved Persis, who labored much in the Lord.

But now they break down the carved work of it at once with axes and hammers.

I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.

He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.

Let thy work appear to thy servants, and thy glory to their children.

When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens [are] the work of thy hands.

And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labor of the people;

Therefore he brought down their heart with labor; they fell down, and [there was] none to help.

Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let strangers spoil his labor.

His work [is] honorable and glorious: and his righteousness endureth for ever.

Their idols [are] silver and gold; the work of men's hands.