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Bible Verses about โ€œlabor dayโ€

The Bible contains 29 verses about labor day across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.

1 Timothy 5:8
1400 votes

โ€œBut if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.โ€

Colossians 3:23
757 votes

โ€œAnd whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,โ€

Matthew 11:28
571 votes

โ€œ"Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.โ€

Matthew 11:29
365 votes

โ€œTake my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.โ€

Colossians 3:24
351 votes

โ€œknowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.โ€

2 Thessalonians 3:10
327 votes

โ€œFor even when we were with you, we commanded you this: "If anyone will not work, neither let him eat."โ€

Ephesians 4:28
304 votes

โ€œLet him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.โ€

Proverbs 16:3
299 votes

โ€œCommit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.โ€

2 Thessalonians 3:11
264 votes

โ€œFor we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don't work at all, but are busybodies.โ€

Matthew 11:30
220 votes

โ€œFor my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."โ€

1 Thessalonians 4:11
192 votes

โ€œand 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;โ€

Exodus 20:10
173 votes

โ€œbut the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates;โ€

1 Corinthians 15:58
171 votes

โ€œTherefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord's work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.โ€

Genesis 2:15
168 votes

โ€œYahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.โ€

Proverbs 6:6
166 votes

โ€œGo to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;โ€

Ecclesiastes 3:13
163 votes

โ€œAlso that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.โ€

Exodus 20:9
162 votes

โ€œYou shall labor six days, and do all your work,โ€

Proverbs 6:7
140 votes

โ€œwhich having no chief, overseer, or ruler,โ€

Proverbs 6:8
140 votes

โ€œprovides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.โ€

2 Thessalonians 3:12
135 votes

โ€œNow those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.โ€

Ecclesiastes 3:12
132 votes

โ€œI know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live.โ€

1 Thessalonians 4:12
105 votes

โ€œthat you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.โ€

Proverbs 14:23
88 votes

โ€œIn all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.โ€

Genesis 2:2
74 votes

โ€œOn the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.โ€

Genesis 2:3
72 votes

โ€œGod blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.โ€

Proverbs 12:11
68 votes

โ€œHe who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.โ€

John 6:27
30 votes

โ€œDon't work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him."โ€

1 Thessalonians 1:3
6 votes

โ€œremembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.โ€

Exodus 34:21
4 votes

โ€œ"Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.โ€

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