23 Bible Verses about Hard Work

I sent you to reap what you didn’t labor for; others have labored, and you have benefited from their labor.”

Now many Samaritans from that town believed in Him because of what the woman said when she testified, “He told me everything I ever did.”

For in this case the saying is true: ‘One sows and another reaps.’

I hated all my work that I labored at under the sun because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.

strangers will drain your resources,
and your earnings will end up in a foreigner’s house.

Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically, as something done for the Lord and not for men,

Therefore, as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in Him,

For he who is called by the Lord as a slave is the Lord’s freedman. Likewise he who is called as a free man is Christ’s slave.

For am I now trying to win the favor of people, or God? Or am I striving to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ.

we labor, working with our own hands. When we are reviled, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;

The thief must no longer steal. Instead, he must do honest work with his own hands, so that he has something to share with anyone in need.

In every way I’ve shown you that by laboring like this, it is necessary to help the weak and to keep in mind the words of the Lord Jesus, for He said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

The hardworking farmer ought to be the first to get a share of the crops.

But by God’s grace I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not ineffective. However, I worked more than any of them, yet not I, but God’s grace that was with me.

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.

‘These last men put in one hour, and you made them equal to us who bore the burden of the day and the burning heat!’

They will not build and others live in them;
they will not plant and others eat.
For My people’s lives will be
like the lifetime of a tree.
My chosen ones will fully enjoy
the work of their hands.

There is profit in all hard work,
but endless talk leads only to poverty.

It is not that there may be relief for others and hardship for you, but it is a question of equality—

The sleep of the worker is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of the rich permits him no sleep.

He speaks about these things in all his letters in which there are some matters that are hard to understand. The untaught and unstable twist them to their own destruction, as they also do with the rest of the Scriptures.