18 Bible Verses About Overworking

Here are 18 Bible verses about overworking from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible (King James Version), sorted from most to least relevant.

Mark 8:36 KJV

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

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Ecclesiastes 7:16 KJV

Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?

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Acts 16:28 KJV

But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are all here.

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Psalms 23:2 KJV

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.

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Proverbs 12:10 KJV

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

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Luke 18:39 KJV

And they which went before rebuked him, that he should hold his peace: but he cried so much the more, Thou Son of David, have mercy on me.

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2 Thessalonians 3:11 KJV

For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.

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Ecclesiastes 4:1 KJV

So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

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Proverbs 23:4 KJV

Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.

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Colossians 4:5 KJV

Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.

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Proverbs 17:17 KJV

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

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Proverbs 15:27 KJV

He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.

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John 11:1 KJV

Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.

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Romans 13:8 KJV

Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.

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Ecclesiastes 4:6 KJV

Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.

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Leviticus 25:4 KJV

But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.

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1 Timothy 4:8 KJV

For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

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James 1:13 KJV

Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:

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