47 Bible Verses About Hard work

And she said, I pray you, let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves: so she came, and hath continued even from the morning until now, that she tarried a little in the house.

They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;

So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.

Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.

So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley.

And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again unto the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels.

She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.

And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:

And Moses did look upon all the work, and, behold, they had done it as the Lord had commanded, even so had they done it: and Moses blessed them.

And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.

She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.

And Isaac’s servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.

And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase.

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

She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.

And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace. And she said unto her, Go, my daughter.

She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.

He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.

Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?

He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.

And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech.

So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and dwelt with her mother in law.

Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderful great.

She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.

Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.

Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.

Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.

And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about:

And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water.

And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp.

And the Lord was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.

But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.

And Ruth the Moabitess said, He said unto me also, Thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest.

She perceiveth that her merchandise is good: her candle goeth not out by night.

A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth: and the recompence of a man’s hands shall be rendered unto him.

Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.

And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.

He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.

And under the brim of it round about there were knops compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about: the knops were cast in two rows, when it was cast.

When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?

Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.

And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle was with me.

And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed.

And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water.

Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.

Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.