Bible Verses about Working Hard

Bible Verses About Working Hard encourage us to approach our tasks with dedication, integrity, and a heart that seeks to honor God. Scripture reminds us that hard work is not just about personal achievement but about serving others and glorifying the Lord in all that we do.

In this post, we’ll explore verses that inspire us to stay diligent, persevere through challenges, and find purpose in our efforts. Whether you’re striving to meet goals or seeking motivation in your daily work, these passages will remind you that working hard with faith and purpose is a way to reflect God’s goodness. Let’s turn to His Word for encouragement and strength in all we do.

Bible Verses about Working Hard

Proverbs 12:11 – “Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense.”

Colossians 3:23 – “Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men.”

Proverbs 14:23 – “In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.”

Ecclesiastes 9:10 – “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.”

2 Thessalonians 3:10 – “For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.”

Proverbs 13:4 – “The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.”

Proverbs 21:5 – “The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.”

1 Corinthians 15:58 – “Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.”

Galatians 6:9 – “And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.”

Matthew 25:21 – “His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’”

Proverbs 22:29 – “Do you see a man skillful in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men.”

Psalm 128:2 – “You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.”

Ephesians 6:7 – “Rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man.”

Proverbs 10:4 – “A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.”

Proverbs 6:6-8 – “Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. Without having any chief, officer, or ruler, she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest.”

Proverbs 11:18 – “The wicked earns deceptive wages, but one who sows righteousness gets a sure reward.”

1 Timothy 5:18 – “For the Scripture says, ‘You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain,’ and, ‘The laborer deserves his wages.'”

Psalm 37:5 – “Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act.”

Hebrews 6:10 – “For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do.”

Proverbs 31:17 – “She dresses herself with strength and makes her arms strong.”

1 Thessalonians 4:11 – “And to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you.”

Ecclesiastes 2:24 – “There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God.”

1 Chronicles 28:10 – “Be careful now, for the Lord has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary; be strong and do it.”

Proverbs 19:15 – “Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger.”

Romans 12:11 – “Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord.”

Exodus 35:35 – “He has filled them with skill to do every sort of work done by an engraver or by a designer or by an embroiderer in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, or by a weaver—by any sort of workman or skilled designer.”

Psalm 90:17 – “Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands upon us; yes, establish the work of our hands!”

Philippians 2:14 – “Do all things without grumbling or disputing.”

Psalm 146:7 – “Who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets the prisoners free;”

Proverbs 15:19 – “The way of a sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a level highway.”

Proverbs 12:24 – “The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor.”

James 2:26 – “For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.”

Genesis 2:15 – “The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.”

Deuteronomy 5:13 – “Six days you shall labor and do all your work,”

Exodus 20:9 – “Six days you shall labor, and do all your work,”

Proverbs 4:7 – “The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight.”

Matthew 7:8 – “For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.”

Colossians 1:29 – “For this I toil, struggling with all his energy that he powerfully works within me.”

Proverbs 24:27 – “Prepare your work outside; get everything ready for yourself in the field, and after that build your house.”

Exodus 35:2 – “Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on it shall be put to death.”

Proverbs 31:13 – “She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands.”

1 Corinthians 3:8 – “He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor.”

Proverbs 10:5 – “He who gathers in summer is a prudent son, but he who sleeps in harvest is a son who brings shame.”

Luke 10:7 – “And remain in the same house, eating and drinking what they provide, for the laborer deserves his wages. Do not go from house to house.”

Matthew 9:37 – “Then he said to his disciples, ‘The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few.'”

Galatians 6:4 – “But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor.”

Ephesians 4:28 – “Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.”

Proverbs 15:22 – “Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed.”

1 Peter 4:10 – “As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace.”

Proverbs 6:10 – “A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,”

Isaiah 65:22 – “They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat; for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.”

Psalm 127:1 – “Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.”

2 Timothy 2:6 – “It is the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops.”

Proverbs 13:11 – “Wealth gained hastily will dwindle, but whoever gathers little by little will increase it.”

Luke 12:43 – “Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes.”

James 1:25 – “But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.”

Proverbs 21:25 – “The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.”

2 Chronicles 15:7 – “But you, take courage! Do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded.”

John 9:4 – “We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.”

Psalm 94:12 – “Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Lord, and whom you teach out of your law,”

Job 8:7 – “And though your beginning was small, your latter days will be very great.”

Proverbs 31:19 – “She puts her hands to the distaff, and her hands hold the spindle.”

1 Corinthians 16:10 – “When Timothy comes, see that you put him at ease among you, for he is doing the work of the Lord, as I am.”

Proverbs 16:26 – “A worker’s appetite works for him; his mouth urges him on.”

Ephesians 2:10 – “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.”

Psalm 104:23 – “Man goes out to his work and to his labor until the evening.”

Philippians 3:14 – “I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”

1 Thessalonians 2:9 – “For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil: we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.”

Proverbs 20:4 – “The sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing.”

2 Corinthians 9:6 – “The point is this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.”

Proverbs 29:18 – “Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint, but blessed is he who keeps the law.”

1 Samuel 12:24 – “Only fear the Lord and serve him faithfully with all your heart. For consider what great things he has done for you.”

Proverbs 27:18 – “Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who guards his master will be honored.”

1 Corinthians 4:12 – “And we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure;”

Proverbs 30:25 – “The ants are a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer.”

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