9 Bible Verses about The Benefits Of Labor

In all toil, there is profit, but the {talk} of lips [leads] only to poverty.

You will indeed eat of the labor of your hands; you [will be] happy and [it will be] well with you.

For you remember, brothers, our labor and hardship: working by night and day in order not to be a burden to any of you, we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

I have shown you [with respect to] all [things] that [by] working hard in this way it is necessary to help those who are in need, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus that he himself said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive."

The one who steals must steal no longer, but instead must labor, working with his own hands [what is] good, so that he may have [something] to share with the one who has need.

The elders who lead well must be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor by speaking and teaching.

Do not work for the food that perishes, but the food that remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has set his seal on this one."

So then, my dear brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, [because you] know that your labor is not [in] vain in the Lord.

holding fast to the word of life, for a source of pride to me in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.