Thematic Bible: Fields of activity
Thematic Bible
Labour » fields of activity » Worldly, sometimes disappointing
Thus I considered all my activities which my hands had done and the labor which I had exerted, and behold all was vanity and striving after wind and there was no profit under the sun.
And your wages for what does not satisfy?
Listen carefully to Me, and
And
There was a certain man without a dependent, having neither a son nor a brother, yet there was no end to all his labor. Indeed, his eyes were not satisfied with riches and he never asked, “And for whom am I laboring and depriving myself of pleasure?” This too is vanity and it is a grievous task.
I have seen all the works which have been done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and striving after wind.
This also is a grievous evil—exactly as a man is born, thus will he die. So what is the advantage to him who toils for the wind?
That peoples
And nations grow weary for nothing?
Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Serving the church
Indeed, true companion, I ask you also to help these women who have shared my struggle in the cause of the gospel, together with Clement also and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.
I commend to you our sister Phoebe, who is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea;
Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Motherly duties
And his mother would make him a little robe and bring it to him from year to year when she would come up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
When he had taken him and brought him to his mother, he sat on her lap until noon, and then died.
Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Acting as judges
Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time.
Until I, Deborah, arose,
Until I arose, a mother in Israel.
Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Meeting an emergency and saving her household
Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread and two jugs of wine and five sheep already prepared and five measures of roasted grain and a hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and loaded them on donkeys.
Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » In beautifying the tabernacle
All the skilled women spun with their hands, and brought what they had spun, in blue and purple and scarlet material and in fine linen.
Labour » Women » Women's Work » fields of activity » Philanthropy
Now in Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha (which translated in Greek is called Dorcas); this woman was abounding with deeds of kindness and charity which she continually did.
Women » fields of activity » In beautifying the tabernacle
All the skilled women spun with their hands, and brought what they had spun, in blue and purple and scarlet material and in fine linen.