Bible Verses about “hard work”
The Bible contains 25 verses about hard work across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“But if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.”
“I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.”
“And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,”
“Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.”
“knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.”
“Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.”
“Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don't give up.”
“For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: "If anyone will not work, neither let him eat."”
“Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.”
“For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don't work at all, but are busybodies.”
“and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;”
“For everything spoken by God is possible."”
“Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;”
“Do all things without murmurings and disputes,”
“which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,”
“provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.”
“Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.”
“that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,”
“The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.”
“that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.”
“Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.”
“In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.”
“The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.”
“He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.”
“The farmers who labor must be the first to get a share of the crops.”