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Bible Verses about β€œwork”

The Bible contains 17 verses about work across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.

Colossians 3:23
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β€œAnd whatsoever ye do, do [it] heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;”

1 Corinthians 10:31
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β€œWhether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.”

Colossians 3:24
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β€œKnowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.”

Colossians 3:17
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β€œAnd whatsoever ye do in word or deed, [do] all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.”

2 Thessalonians 3:10
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β€œFor even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.”

Ephesians 4:28
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β€œLet him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with [his] hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.”

Proverbs 16:3
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β€œΒΆ Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.”

Genesis 2:15
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β€œAnd the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.”

Ecclesiastes 3:13
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β€œAnd also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it [is] the gift of God.”

Ecclesiastes 3:12
132 votes

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

Proverbs 18:9
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β€œΒΆ He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.”

Proverbs 14:23
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β€œΒΆ In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips [tendeth] only to penury.”

Proverbs 12:24
75 votes

β€œΒΆ The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.”

Psalms 90:17
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β€œAnd let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.”

Ecclesiastes 5:18
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β€œΒΆ Behold [that] which I have seen: [it is] good and comely [for one] to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it [is] his portion.”

Ecclesiastes 5:19
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β€œEvery man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this [is] the gift of God.”

Ecclesiastes 5:20
21 votes

β€œFor he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth [him] in the joy of his heart.”

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