Bible Verses about “toil”

“Jesus saith unto him, ‹I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.›”

“Two [are] better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.”

“For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him [that is] alone when he falleth; for [he hath] not another to help him up.”

“And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.”

“Withhold not correction from the child: for [if] thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.”

“And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it [is] the gift of God.”

“Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm [alone]?”

“In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou [art], and unto dust shalt thou return.”

“Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.”

“[It is] vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: [for] so he giveth his beloved sleep.”

“I know that [there is] no good in them, but for [a man] to rejoice, and to do good in his life.”

“For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe [a man] with rags.”

“Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:”

“¶ Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:”

“Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.”

“For a just [man] falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.”

“¶ Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.”

“¶ And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed [is] the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat [of] it all the days of thy life;”

“And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.”

“¶ A Song of degrees for Solomon. Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh [but] in vain.”

“Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;”

“¶ In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips [tendeth] only to penury.”

“¶ Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:”

“And put a knife to thy throat, if thou [be] a man given to appetite.”

“[Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:”

“So shall thy poverty come [as] one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.”

“At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.”

“¶ [It is] not good to eat much honey: so [for men] to search their own glory [is not] glory.”

“¶ Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.”

“¶ I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;”

“And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, [and] nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.”

“Then I saw, [and] considered [it] well: I looked upon [it, and] received instruction.”

“Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.”

“¶ Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?”

“They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.”

“Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, [when] it moveth itself aright.”

“Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.”

“They have stricken me, [shalt thou say, and] I was not sick; they have beaten me, [and] I felt [it] not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.”

“¶ A righteous man falling down before the wicked [is as] a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.”

“Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for [riches] certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.”

“¶ He that [hath] no rule over his own spirit [is like] a city [that is] broken down, [and] without walls.”

“Lest the LORD see [it], and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.”

“¶ Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.”

“¶ My son, eat thou honey, because [it is] good; and the honeycomb, [which is] sweet to thy taste:”

“¶ If thou forbear to deliver [them that are] drawn unto death, and [those that are] ready to be slain;”

“For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellors [there is] safety.”

“¶ [It is] better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.”

“[Every man] shall kiss [his] lips that giveth a right answer.”

“[As] an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, [so is] a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.”

“¶ [It is] the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings [is] to search out a matter.”