95 Bible Verses about Work

Here are 95 Bible verses about work, curated from both the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, King James Version, arranged from most to least relevant.

Related topics: a man working · doing works · job · jobs · on the job · opportunities · the workplace

Colossians 3:23 KJV

²³ And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Proverbs 16:3 KJV

³ Commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Ecclesiastes 3:12-13 KJV

¹² I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life. ¹³ And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Genesis 2:15 KJV

¹⁵ And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

1 Corinthians 10:31 KJV

³¹ Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Psalm 90:17 KJV

¹⁷ And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Ecclesiastes 5:18-20 KJV

¹⁸ Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion. ¹⁹ Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God. …

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Proverbs 18:9 KJV

⁹ He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Proverbs 14:23 KJV

²³ In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Ephesians 4:28 KJV

²⁸ Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

2 Thessalonians 3:10 KJV

¹⁰ For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Colossians 3:17 KJV

¹⁷ And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Proverbs 12:24 KJV

²⁴ The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Colossians 3:23-24 KJV

²³ And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; ²⁴ Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

1 Corinthians 16:14 KJV

¹⁴ Let all your things be done with charity.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Luke 1:37 KJV

³⁷ For with God nothing shall be impossible.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Proverbs 13:11 KJV

¹¹ Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

1 Corinthians 15:58 KJV

⁵⁸ Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

John 6:27 KJV

²⁷ Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Colossians 3:22-24 KJV

²² Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God; ²³ And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; ²⁴ Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

1 Timothy 5:8 KJV

⁸ But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Proverbs 12:11 KJV

¹¹ He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Proverbs 13:4 KJV

⁴ The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

2 Timothy 2:15 KJV

¹⁵ Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Philippians 4:13 KJV

¹³ I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Hebrews 6:10 KJV

¹⁰ For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Galatians 6:4-5 KJV

⁴ But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. ⁵ For every man shall bear his own burden.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Proverbs 21:5 KJV

⁵ The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

2 Corinthians 9:8 KJV

⁸ And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Ecclesiastes 4:9 KJV

⁹ Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

1 Thessalonians 4:11 KJV

¹¹ And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Ecclesiastes 4:1-16 KJV

¹ 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. ² Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. ³ Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who …

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

2 Timothy 2:6 KJV

⁶ The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Ecclesiastes 5:19 KJV

¹⁹ Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

2 Timothy 3:16-17 KJV

¹⁶ All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: ¹⁷ That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Ecclesiastes 5:18 KJV

¹⁸ Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Ecclesiastes 9:10 KJV

¹⁰ Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

1 Corinthians 15:10 KJV

¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Matthew 11:28 KJV

²⁸ Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Ecclesiastes 4:4 KJV

⁴ Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

1 Timothy 2:15 KJV

¹⁵ Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

1 Timothy 3:16 KJV

¹⁶ And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

1 Corinthians 9:8 KJV

⁸ Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Acts 20:24 KJV

²⁴ But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Matthew 6:26 KJV

²⁶ Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Psalm 128:2 KJV

² For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

2 John 1:8 KJV

⁸ Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

1 Peter 3:13 KJV

¹³ And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good?

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Hebrews 4:9-10 KJV

⁹ There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. ¹⁰ For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Proverbs 10:22 KJV

²² The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

2 Thessalonians 3:10-12 KJV

¹⁰ For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. ¹¹ For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies. ¹² Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

John 14:12 KJV

¹² Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Colossians 3:2 KJV

² Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Titus 2:9-10 KJV

⁹ Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again; ¹⁰ Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Matthew 5:16 KJV

¹⁶ Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Genesis 2:3 KJV

³ And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 KJV

¹¹ And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; ¹² That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Jeremiah 29:11 KJV

¹¹ For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Colossians 3:3 KJV

³ For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Ephesians 2:10 KJV

¹⁰ For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

John 5:17 KJV

¹⁷ But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

1 Timothy 3:2 KJV

² A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

1 Corinthians 15:2 KJV

² By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Genesis 1:31 KJV

³¹ And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Proverbs 10:4 KJV

⁴ He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Galatians 6:9 KJV

⁹ And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

1 Corinthians 9:2 KJV

² If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Proverbs 16:2 KJV

² All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the Lord weigheth the spirits.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Proverbs 13:11-12 KJV

¹¹ Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase. ¹² Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Proverbs 24:30-34 KJV

³⁰ I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; ³¹ And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down. ³² Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction. ³³ Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding …

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Acts 20:35 KJV

³⁵ I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

John 3:16-17 KJV

¹⁶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. ¹⁷ For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Proverbs 6:6-8 KJV

⁶ Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: ⁷ Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, ⁸ Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Psalm 90:3 KJV

³ Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Titus 2:7-8 KJV

⁷ In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity, ⁸ Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Colossians 3:24 KJV

²⁴ Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Proverbs 22:29 KJV

²⁹ Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Romans 12:11 KJV

¹¹ Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Genesis 3:17-19 KJV

¹⁷ And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; ¹⁸ Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; ¹⁹ In the sweat of thy face shalt …

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Proverbs 3:5-6 KJV

⁵ Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. ⁶ In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Philippians 2:14-15 KJV

¹⁴ Do all things without murmurings and disputings: ¹⁵ That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Proverbs 6:10-12 KJV

¹⁰ Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: ¹¹ So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. ¹² A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

1 Corinthians 16:2 KJV

² Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Job 1:10 KJV

¹⁰ Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

2 Timothy 4:7 KJV

⁷ I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Proverbs 10:2 KJV

² Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Ecclesiastes 2:24 KJV

²⁴ There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Colossians 3:23-25 KJV

²³ And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; ²⁴ Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ. ²⁵ But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Deuteronomy 24:14 KJV

¹⁴ Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Deuteronomy 15:10 KJV

¹⁰ Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Ephesians 6:7 KJV

⁷ With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Leviticus 23:22 KJV

²² And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the Lord your God.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

1 Corinthians 4:12 KJV

¹² And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

1 Timothy 2:2 KJV

² For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Ecclesiastes 4:2 KJV

² Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse