23 Bible Verses about Hard Work

I sent you to reap what ye have not labored. Others have labored, and ye have entered into their labor.

And many of the Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, He told me all, as many things as I did.

For in this the saying is true, One is who sows, and another who reaps.

And I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who shall be after me.

lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labors [be] in the house of an alien,

And all things, anything whatever ye may do, work from soul as to the Lord and not to men,

As therefore ye received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him,

For he who was called in Lord a bondman is a freedman of Lord. Likewise also he who was called a free man is a bondman of Christ.

For do I now trust men or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I were still pleasing men I would not be a bondman of Christ.

And we toil, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;

Let the man who steals steal no more, but rather let him labor, working with his hands the good, so that he may have to give to him who has need.

I gave you a glimpse of all things, that so laboring ye ought to aid the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

The farmer who labors must be the first to partake of the fruits.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. And his grace for me did not become empty, but I labored more abundantly than them all, yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

For ye remember, brothers, our labor and the hardship. For, laboring night and day in order not to burden any of you, we preached to you the good-news of God.

saying, These last did one hour, and thou have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the heat.

They shall not build, and another inhabit. They shall not plant, and another eat. For as the days of a tree shall be the days of my people, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

In all labor there is profit, but the talk of the lips [tends] only to poverty.

For it is not, so that ease is for others and stress for you, but out of parity your abundance at the present time is for the need of those men.

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the fullness of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

as also in all his letters, speaking in them about these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist, as also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.