100 Bible Verses About Work

For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we did conduct ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;

But now, O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

Blessed be God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me.

And he said to them, This [is that] which the LORD hath said, To-morrow [is] the rest of the holy sabbath to the LORD: bake [that] which ye will bake [to-day], and boil that ye will boil; and that which remaineth over, lay up for you to be kept until the morning.

And I say, Who doth give to me a pinion as a dove? I fly away and rest,

Remember Thy company. Thou didst purchase of old, Thou didst redeem the rod of Thy inheritance, This mount Zion--Thou didst dwell in it.

The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

And Moses's father-in-law said to him, The thing that thou doest [is] not good.

Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:

So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.

And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep: for she kept them.

Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, [with] the statutes and judgments.

And the LORD said to Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shown among them?

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.

(for they hear of Thy great name, and of Thy strong hand, and of Thy stretched-out arm) --and he hath come in and prayed towards this house,

For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.

and they sing a new song, saying, Worthy art thou to take the scroll, and to open the seals of it, because thou wast slain, and didst redeem us to God in thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation,

for we see now through a mirror obscurely, and then face to face; now I know in part, and then I shall fully know, as also I was known;

When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came to thee, into thy holy temple.

And Jehoiada putteth the offices of the house of Jehovah into the hand of the priests the Levites whom David had apportioned over the house of Jehovah, to cause to ascend the burnt-offerings of Jehovah, as written in the law of Moses, with joy, and with singing, by the hands of David;

For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.

To the parts of Sheol ye go down, If together on the dust we may rest.

The Lord grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept.

And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.

The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.

believe me, that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; and if not, because of the works themselves, believe me.

And Naomi saith to her daughter-in-law, Blessed is he of Jehovah who hath not forsaken His kindness with the living and with the dead;' and Naomi saith to her, The man is a relation of ours; he is of our redeemers.'

And the king said to Esther at the banquet of wine, What [is] thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: and what [is] thy request? even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.

And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; [and] they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.

And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.

The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

And at the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, mine eyes to the heavens have lifted up, and mine understanding unto me returneth, and the Most High I have blessed, and the Age-during Living One I have praised and honoured, whose dominion is a dominion age-during, and His kingdom with generation and generation;

But if thou wilt go, do [it], be strong for the battle: God will make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and to cast down.

When I shall say to the righteous, [that] he shall surely live; if he shall trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.

In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.

And he shall restore the lamb four-fold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.

And Jeremiah the prophet saith unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear, I pray thee, O Hananiah; Jehovah hath not sent thee, and thou hast caused this people to trust on falsehood.

from wine and strong drink he doth keep separate; vinegar of wine, and vinegar of strong drink he doth not drink, and any juice of grapes he doth not drink, and grapes moist or dry he doth not eat;

And thou--be remaining in the things which thou didst learn and wast entrusted with, having known from whom thou didst learn,

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel thy servants, to whom thou sworest by thine own self, and saidst to them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give to your seed, and they shall inherit [it] for ever.

And he hath taken of the blood of the bullock, and hath sprinkled with his finger on the front of the mercy-seat eastward; even at the front of the mercy-seat he doth sprinkle seven times of the blood with his finger.

though I also have cause of trust in flesh. If any other one doth think to have trust in flesh, I more;

looking diligently over lest any one be failing of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up may give trouble, and through this many may 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.

And he spoke this parable to certain who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:

And she cometh in unto her mother-in-law, and she saith, Who art thou, my daughter?' and she declareth to her all that the man hath done to her.

And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king’s laws: therefore it is not for the king’s profit to suffer them.

Shew us thy mercy, O Lord, and grant us thy salvation.

Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle.

And he cried, and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue: for I am tormented in this flame.

I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.

And the rest of the matters of Ahaz that he did, are they not written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah?

How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.

Wisdom [is] before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool [are] in the ends of the earth.

But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut it to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower.

He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.

Conies are a people not strong, And they place in a rock their house,

And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.

God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth.

There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.

And the children of the Kenite, Moses’ father in law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which lieth in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt among the people.

To him who alone doeth great wonders: for his mercy endureth for ever.

But the other Jews that [were] in the king's provinces assembled, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of their foes seventy and five thousand, (but they laid not their hands on the prey.)

Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the people, and commanded to put the apostles forth a little space;

Go, and thou hast said to Hezekiah, Thus said Jehovah, God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tear, lo, I am adding to thy days fifteen years,

Now I have known That Jehovah hath saved His anointed, He answereth him from His holy heavens, With the saving might of His right hand.

Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.

And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.

And I, as a green olive in the house of God, I have trusted in the kindness of God, To the age and for ever,

Then said Paul to him, God shall smite thee, [thou] whited wall: for sittest thou to judge me according to the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law?

and Jehovah giveth rest to them round about, according to all that which He hath sworn to their fathers, and there hath not stood a man in their presence of all their enemies, the whole of their enemies hath Jehovah given into their hand;

Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to impurity, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

Let it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his father's house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staff, or that falleth on the sword, or that lacketh bread.

And besides this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing that was under his hand; because the Lord was with him, and that which he did, the Lord made it to prosper.

And David smiteth Hadarezer king of Zobah, at Hamath, in his going to establish his power by the river Phrat,

Sunk into the earth have her gates, He hath destroyed and broken her bars, Her king and her princes are among the nations, There is no law, also her prophets Have not found vision from Jehovah.

But as for me, I will come [into] thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: [and] in thy fear will I worship towards thy holy temple.

And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they [are] the children of lewdness.

and they are Thy people, and Thine inheritance, whom Thou hast brought out by Thy great power, and by Thy stretched-out arm!

It is a sabbath of rest to you, and ye have humbled yourselves in the ninth of the month at even; from evening till evening ye do keep your sabbath.'

Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen. Written from Rome unto the Ephesians by Tychicus.

He delivereth me from my strong enemy, From those hating me, For they were stronger than I.

Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.

These have been cities of meeting for all the sons of Israel, and for a sojourner who is sojourning in their midst, for the fleeing thither of any one smiting life inadvertently, and he doth not die by the hand of the redeemer of blood till his standing before the company.

Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD whom he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.

and if any one for his own--and especially for those of the household--doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they say to you, Thou [land] devourest men, and hast bereaved thy nations;

And Solomon said unto God, Thou hast shewed great mercy unto David my father, and hast made me to reign in his stead.

And the high priest arose, and said unto him, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against thee?

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to Jehovah, And the prayer of the upright is His delight.

(and He manifested in proper times His word,) in preaching, which I was entrusted with, according to a charge of God our Saviour,

What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.

Knowledge too wonderful for me, It hath been set on high, I am not able for it.

When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.

For if these things be in you, and abound, they make [you that ye shall] neither [be] barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Behold, here I [am]: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed; whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or from whose hand have I received [any] bribe to blind my eyes with it? and I will restore it you.