Bible Verses About Work Ethic

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 .

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

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.

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

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.

Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour.

Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.

A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.

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.

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.

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.

I went by the field of the slothful , and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;

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

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;

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

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

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

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

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

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

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: