17 Bible Verses about Doing One's Work
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Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest: that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
Six days may work be done; but on the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever does any work on the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.
Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.
Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day it shall be to you a holy day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD: whosoever does work on it shall be put to death.
Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no work on it: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.
She seeks wool, and flax, and works willingly with her hands.
And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that were in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer of it.
And he said unto him, Say now unto her, Behold, you have cared for us with all this care; what is to be done for you? would you be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the army? And she answered, I dwell among my own people.
And he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, Verily she has no child, and her husband is old.
Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto you, that the sea may be calm for us? for the sea raged, and was tempestuous.
Labor not for the food which perishes, but for that food which endures unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for on him has God the Father set his seal.
And that you study to be quiet, and to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
And the king of Egypt said unto them, Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people from their work? get you unto your burdens.
And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the grain, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground brings forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labor of the hands.
Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
