'Working' in the Bible
and then I will acknowledge to them, that -- I never knew you, depart from me ye who are working lawlessness.
and said to his servants, 'This is John the Baptist, he did rise from the dead, and because of this the mighty energies are working in him.'
"These last fellows worked only one hour, but you paid them the same as us, and we've been working all day, enduring the scorching heat!'
'And what think ye? A man had two children, and having come to the first, he said, Child, go, to-day be working in my vineyard.'
That slave whose master finds him working when he comes will be rewarded.
So when Pilate saw that he was able to do nothing, but that trouble was working up, he took water and, washing his hands before the people, said, The blood of this upright man is not on my hands: you are responsible.
And the king Herod heard, (for his name became public,) and he said -- 'John the Baptist out of the dead was raised, and because of this the mighty powers are working in him.'
And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.
And Simon, answering, said, Master, we were working all night and we took nothing: but at your word I will let down the nets.
And so were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were working with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, Have no fear; from this time forward you will be a fisher of men.
That slave whose master finds him working when he comes will be rewarded.
And the chief of the synagogue answering -- much displeased that on the sabbath Jesus healed -- said to the multitude, 'Six days there are in which it behoveth us to be working; in these, then, coming, be healed, and not on the sabbath-day.'
And the servant said to himself, What am I to do now that my lord takes away my position? I have not enough strength for working in the fields, and I would be shamed if I made requests for money from people in the streets.
But Jesus responded to them, “My Father is still working, and I am working also.”
Then they asked Him, “What are we to do, so that we may habitually be doing the works of God?”
it behoveth me to be working the works of Him who sent me while it is day; night doth come, when no one is able to work: --
I do not call you servants any longer, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you [My] friends, because I have revealed to you everything that I have heard from My Father.
You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.
And they gave attention to him, because for a long time his wonder-working powers had kept them under his control.
Preaching in the name of the Lord without fear; and he had discussions with the Greek Jews; but they were working for his death.
but in every nation he who is fearing Him, and is working righteousness, is acceptable to Him;
But the Jews, working up the feelings of the God-fearing women of high position and of the chief men of the town, got an attack started against Paul and Barnabas, driving them out of those parts.
Upon their arrival they called the Church together and proceeded to report in detail all that God, working with them, had done, and how He had opened for the Gentiles the door of faith.
Upon their arrival in Jerusalem they were cordially received by the Church, the Apostles, and the Elders; and they reported in detail all that God, working with them, had done.
But when the Jews of Thessalonica had news that Paul was preaching the word at Beroea, they came there, troubling the people and working them up.
and because of being of the same craft, he did remain with them, and was working, for they were tent-makers as to craft;
mighty works also -- not common -- was God working through the hands of Paul,
In every way I showed you that by working hard like this we should help the weak and remember the words that the Lord Jesus himself said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"
And they have not seen me in argument with any man in the Temple, or working up the feelings of the people, in the Synagogues or in the town:
For the effecting of which our twelve tribes have been working and waiting night and day with all their hearts. And in connection with this hope I am attacked by the Jews, O king!
I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation [from His wrath and punishment] to everyone who believes [in Christ as Savior], to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
For this reason God gave them up to the evil desires of their hearts, working shame in their bodies with one another:
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
tribulation and distress, upon every soul of man that is working the evil, both of Jew first, and of Greek;
and glory, and honour, and peace, to every one who is working the good, both to Jew first, and to Greek.
and to him who is working, the reward is not reckoned of grace, but of debt;
and to him who is not working, and is believing upon Him who is declaring righteous the impious, his faith is reckoned -- to righteousness:
for when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins, that are through the law, were working in our members, to bear fruit to the death;
But sin, taking its chance through that which was ordered by the law, was working in me every form of desire: because without the law sin is dead.
Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
But I see another law in my body, working against the law of my mind, and making me the servant of the law of sin which is in my flesh.
And we know that for those who love God, that is, for those who are called according to his purpose, all things are working together for good.
For they are God's servants, working for your good.
Now I make request to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that you will be working together with me in your prayers to God for me;
Timothy, who is working with me, sends his love to you, so do Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my relations.
Now the planter and the waterer are working for the same end: but they will have their separate rewards in the measure of their work.
And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?
Have ye not known that those working about the things of the temple -- of the temple do eat, and those waiting at the altar -- with the altar are partakers?
and there are diversities of workings, and it is the same God -- who is working the all in all.
But to every man some form of the Spirit's working is given for the common good.
To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
And God has put some in the church, first, Apostles; second, prophets; third, teachers; then those with wonder-working powers, then those with the power of taking away disease, helpers, wise guides, users of strange tongues.
Are all Apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? have all the power of working wonders?
But what I am I am by the grace of God, and His grace bestowed upon me did not prove ineffectual. But I labored more strenuously than all the rest--yet it was not I, but God's grace working with me.
that ye also be subject to such, and to every one who is working with us and labouring;
ye working together also for us by your supplication, that the gift through many persons to us, through many may be thankfully acknowledged for us.
So then, death is working in us, but life in you.
For our present trouble, which is only for a short time, is working out for us a much greater weight of glory;
Working together with Him, we also appeal to you, “Don’t receive God’s grace in vain.”
If any question comes up about Titus, he is my brother-worker, working with me for you; or about the others, they are the representatives of the churches to the glory of Christ.
(Because he who was working in Peter as the Apostle of the circumcision was working no less in me among the Gentiles);
He, therefore, who is supplying to you the Spirit, and working mighty acts among you -- by works of law or by the hearing of faith is it?
I am in fear of you, that I may have been working for you to no purpose.
But as at that time the child [of ordinary birth] born according to the flesh persecuted the son who was born according to [the promise and working of] the Spirit, so it is now also.
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision accomplishes anything; what matters is faith working through love.
in whom also we did obtain an inheritance, being foreordained according to the purpose of Him who the all things is working according to the counsel of His will,
And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
in which you previously walked according to the ways of this world, according to the ruler who exercises authority over the lower heavens, the spirit now working in the disobedient.
Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.
Now to the one who can do infinitely more than all we can ask or imagine according to the power that is working among us
From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
who, having ceased to feel, themselves did give up to the lasciviousness, for the working of all uncleanness in greediness;
Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
I am convinced of this, and I know that I shall remain, and shall go on working side by side with you all, to promote your progress and joy in the faith;
Just one thing: Live your life in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. Then, whether I come and see you or am absent, I will hear about you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind, working side by side for the faith that comes from the gospel,
So then, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence but even more in my absence, continue working out your salvation with awe and reverence,
For it is God who is working in you, enabling you both to desire and to work out His good purpose.
But you know his qualifications, that like a son working with his father, he served with me in advancing the gospel.
because he came close to death for the work of Christ, risking his life to complete what was lacking in your service to me [which distance prevented you from rendering personally].
Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
Having been buried with Him in baptism, you were also raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.
For I testify to him that {he is working hard} on behalf of you and those in Laodicea and those in Hierapolis.
For you remember our labor and hardship, brothers. Working night and day so that we would not burden any of you, we preached God’s gospel to you.
And that you may take pride in being quiet and doing your business, working with your hands as we gave you orders;
But we make this request to you, my brothers: give attention to those who are working among you, who are over you in the Lord to keep order among you;
Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
and because of this shall God send to them a working of delusion, for their believing the lie,
we did not eat anyone’s food free of charge; instead, we labored and struggled, working night and day, so that we would not be a burden to any of you.
For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.
Now we command and exhort such people by the Lord Jesus Christ that quietly working, they may eat their own food.
And let those whose masters are of the faith have respect for them because they are brothers, working for them the more readily, because those who take part in the good work are of the faith and are dear. Give orders and teaching about these things.
To be wise in mind, clean in heart, kind; working in their houses, living under the authority of their husbands; so that no evil may be said of the word of God.
that the fellowship of thy faith may become working in the full knowledge of every good thing that is in you toward Christ Jesus;
for the reckoning of God is living, and working, and sharp above every two-edged sword, and piercing unto the dividing asunder both of soul and spirit, of joints also and marrow, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart;
Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
dost thou see that the faith was working with his works, and out of the works the faith was perfected?
Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;
seeking to find out what person or what time the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating as He foretold the sufferings of Christ and the glories [destined] to follow.
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