29 Bible Verses about Work, Divine And Human

A Solomonic song of ascents.Unless the Lord builds a house,
its builders labor over it in vain;
unless the Lord watches over a city,
the watchman stays alert in vain.

So from there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth, and they stopped building the city.

“I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in Me and I in him produces much fruit, because you can do nothing without Me.

You led Your people like a flock
by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

But the Lord said to him, “Go! For this man is My chosen instrument to take My name to Gentiles, kings, and the Israelites.

And for this reason you pay taxes, since the authorities are God’s public servants, continually attending to these tasks.

But God, who comforts the humble, comforted us by the arrival of Titus,

I have filled him with God’s Spirit, with wisdom, understanding, and ability in every craft

But the one who did not know and did things deserving of blows will be beaten lightly. Much will be required of everyone who has been given much. And even more will be expected of the one who has been entrusted with more.

If anyone speaks, it should be as one who speaks God’s words; if anyone serves, it should be from the strength God provides, so that God may be glorified through Jesus Christ in everything. To Him belong the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.

but remember that the Lord your God gives you the power to gain wealth, in order to confirm His covenant He swore to your fathers, as it is today.

Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us;
establish for us the work of our hands—
establish the work of our hands!

For they were all trying to intimidate us, saying, “They will become discouraged in the work, and it will never be finished.”

But now, my God, strengthen me.

It is not that we are competent in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our competence is from God.

For we are God’s coworkers. You are God’s field, God’s building.

Working together with Him, we also appeal to you, “Don’t receive God’s grace in vain.”

And they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word by the accompanying signs.]

So then, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now even more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God who is working in you, enabling you both to desire and to work out His good purpose.

The Lord God took the man and placed him in the garden of Eden to work it and watch over it.

Listen and hear my voice.
Pay attention and hear what I say.
Does the plowman plow every day to plant seed?
Does he continuously break up and cultivate the soil?
When he has leveled its surface,
does he not then scatter black cumin and sow cumin?
He plants wheat in rows and barley in plots,
with spelt as their border.
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His God teaches him order;
He instructs him.
Certainly black cumin is not threshed
with a threshing board,
and a cart wheel is not rolled over the cumin.
But black cumin is beaten out with a stick,
and cumin with a rod.
Bread grain is crushed,
but is not threshed endlessly.
Though the wheel of the farmer’s cart rumbles,
his horses do not crush it.
This also comes from the Lord of Hosts.
He gives wonderful advice;
He gives great wisdom.

So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.

“Get up, go to Zarephath that belongs to Sidon and stay there. Look, I have commanded a woman who is a widow to provide for you there.”

We want you to know, brothers, about the grace of God granted to the churches of Macedonia: During a severe testing by affliction, their abundance of joy and their deep poverty overflowed into the wealth of their generosity. I testify that, on their own, according to their ability and beyond their ability, read more.
they begged us insistently for the privilege of sharing in the ministry to the saints, and not just as we had hoped. Instead, they gave themselves especially to the Lord, then to us by God’s will.

“The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own brothers. You must listen to him. This is what you requested from the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, ‘Let us not continue to hear the voice of the Lord our God or see this great fire any longer, so that we will not die!’ Then the Lord said to me, ‘They have spoken well. read more.
I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. I will put My words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him.

and He sent a message through Nathan the prophet, who named him Jedidiah, because of the Lord.

He and his officers and the people of the land did not obey the words of the Lord that He spoke through Jeremiah the prophet.

The Lord brought Israel from Egypt by a prophet,
and Israel was tended by a prophet.

Now all this took place to fulfill what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet:

because no prophecy ever came by the will of man; instead, men spoke from God as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.