23 Bible Verses about Hard Work

I sent you to reap that whereon ye have not labored: others have labored, and ye are entered into their labor.

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

For herein is the saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.

And I hated all my labor wherein I labored under the sun, seeing that I must leave it unto the man that shall be after me.

Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, And thy labors be in the house of an alien,

whatsoever ye do, work heartily, as unto the Lord, and not unto men;

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

For he that was called in the Lord being a bondservant, is the Lord's freedman: likewise he that was called being free, is Christ's bondservant.

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? or am I striving to please men? if I were still pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ.

and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have whereof to give to him that hath need.

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring ye ought to help 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 husbandmen that laboreth must be the first to partake of the fruits.

But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not found vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

For ye remember, brethren, our labor and travail: working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

saying, These last have spent but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching 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 tendeth only to penury.

For I say not this that others may be eased and ye distressed;

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much; but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; wherein are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unstedfast wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.