Bible verses about "labor" | Goodspeed

⁷ Stay at the same house, eating and drinking what they offer you, for the workman deserves his pay. Do not change from one house to another.

²³ Work at everything you do with all your hearts, as work done not for men only but for the Lord, ²⁴ for you know that it is from him that you are to receive that inheritance which is to be your reward. Think of Christ as the master you are working for.

¹⁰ For God is not so unjust as to forget the work you have done and the love you have showed for his cause, in giving help to your fellow-Christians as you still do.

⁷ For you know yourselves what you must do to follow my example, for I was not idle when I was with you; ⁸ I did not eat anybody's bread without paying for it, but with toil and labor I worked night and day, in order not to be a burden to any of you. ⁹ Not that I had not a right to my support, but to give you in my own conduct an example to imitate. ¹⁰ When I was with you, I gave you this rule: "If anyone refuses to work, give him nothing to eat!" ¹¹ For we hear that some of you are living in idleness, mere busybodies, not doing any work. ¹² Now with the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ we charge and exhort such people to keep quiet and do their work and earn their own living. ¹³ But you, brothers, must not get tired of doing right.

³ for we can never forget before our God and Father your energetic faith, your loving service, and your unwavering expectation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁸ For the Scripture says, "You must not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain," and the workman deserves his wages.

¹¹ in striving to live quietly and mind your own affairs, and work with your hands, as we directed you,

²⁸ The man who stole must not steal any more; he must work with his hands at honest toil instead, so as to have something to share with those who are in need.

³⁵ I showed you in every way that by hard work like that we must help those who are weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, for he said, 'It makes one happier to give than to be given to.' "

⁴ Why, the wages you have withheld from the laborers who have reaped your harvests cry aloud, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

⁵⁸ So my dear brothers, be firm and unmoved, and always devote yourselves to the Lord's work, for you know that through the Lord your labor is not thrown away.