18 Bible Verses about Hard Work

I have sent you to reap that on which ye have bestowed no labour: others have laboured, and ye have entered into their labour.

Now many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him, on the report of the woman, who said, That he told me all things I ever had done.

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

And in every thing that ye do, labour from the soul, as for the Lord, and not man;

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

For he that is called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lord's freed man: in like manner also, he that is called, being a free man, is the servant of Christ.

For do I now use persuasions from men, or from God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

and work hard, labouring with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it;

Let him that stole steal no more; but rather labour hard, working with his hands that which is good, that he may have something to give to him that is in want.

In all things I have set you the example, that so labouring hard ye ought to help the infirm, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, because he himself said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive."

The husbandman who toils is the first who ought to partake of the fruits.

But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was given to me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

For ye remember, brethren, our labour and toil: for night and day working hard, that we might be no burden to any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

saying, These last have wrought only a single hour, and thou hast put them on an equality with us, who have borne the burden and heat of the day.

For I mean not that there should be ease for others and a burden on you;

as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, of which some are difficult to be understood, which the uninstructed and the unstable torture, as indeed they do the rest of the scriptures unto their own destruction.