Bible verses about "labor" | Rotherham

¹⁹ In the sweat of thy face, shalt thou eat bread, until thou return to the ground, because, therefrom, wast thou taken,––For, dust, thou art, And, unto dust, shalt thou return.

¹⁵ So Yahweh God took the man,––and placed him in the garden of Eden, to till it, and to keep it.

⁹ Six days, shalt thou labour, and do all thy work;

¹ [A Song of Ascents. Solomon’s.]
If, Yahweh, build not the house, in vain, have the builders of it toiled thereon, If, Yahweh, watch not the city, in vain, hath the watchman kept awake:

⁷ And, in the self–same house, abide ye, eating and drinking such things as they have; for, worthy, is the labourer, of his hire: be not removing from house to house.

²³ Whatsoever ye may be doing, from the soul, be working at it, as unto the Lord, and not unto men,–– ²⁴ Knowing that, from the Lord, ye shall duly receive the recompense of the inheritance,––unto the Lord Christ, are ye in service;

¹⁰ For, not unrighteous, is God, to be forgetful of your work and of the love which ye have shewn forth for his name, in that ye have ministered unto the saints, and are ministering,

⁷ For, ye yourselves, know, how needful it is to be imitating us, in that we were not disorderly among you, ⁸ Nor, as a free–gift, did eat, bread, from anyone, but, with toil and hardship, night and day, working,––that we might not burden any of you; –– ⁹ Not because we have not authority, but that, ourselves, as an ensample, we might hold forth unto you,––to the end ye might he imitating us. ¹⁰ For, even when we were with you, this, were we giving in charge unto you,––that, if any will not work, neither let him eat! ¹¹ We hear, in fact, of some who are walking among you in a disorderly way, at nothing, working, yet too busily working! ¹² Now, such as these, we charge and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ,––that, with quietness, working, their own bread, they be eating. ¹³ But, ye, brethren, be not weary in well–doing; ––

³ Unceasingly, remembering––your work of faith and labour of love and endurance of hope, of our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father:

¹⁸ For the scripture saith––A threshing ox, shalt thou not muzzle, and––Worthy, is the workman, of his hire.

¹¹ And to be ambitious to be quiet, and to be attending to your own affairs, and to be working with your hands,––even as, unto you, we gave charge––

²⁸ Let, the stealer, no more, steal, but rather let him be toiling,––working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have [wherewith] to be giving away to him that hath need;

³⁵ In all things, I gave you to understand, that, thus toiling, it behoves to be helping the weak, also to be keeping in mind the words of the Lord Jesus, that, he himself, said––Happy is it, rather to give than to receive!

⁴ Lo, the wage of the workers who have out down your fields––that which hath been kept back, by you, is crying out; and, the outcries of them who reaped, into the ears of the Lord of hosts, have entered:

⁵⁸ So, then, my beloved brethren,––become ye, steadfast, immovable, superabounding in the work of the Lord, at all times; knowing that, your toil, is not in vain in the Lord.