10 For also when we were with you we enjoined you this, that if any man does not like to work, neither let him eat.
11 For we hear that {there are} some walking among you disorderly, not working at all, but busybodies.
12 Now such we enjoin and exhort in {the} Lord Jesus Christ, that working quietly they eat their own bread.
23 Whatsoever ye do, labour at it heartily, as {doing it} to the Lord, and not to men;
31 Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatever ye do, do all things to God's glory.
6 Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways and be wise:
7 which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,
8 provideth her bread in the summer, {and} gathereth her food in the harvest.
9 How long, sluggard, wilt thou lie down? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest!
11 So shall thy poverty come as a roving plunderer, and thy penury as an armed man.
23 In all labour there is profit; but the talk of the lips {tendeth} only to want.
9 He also who is indolent in his work is brother of the destroyer.
17 And everything, whatever ye may do in word or in deed, {do} all things in {the} name of {the} Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father by him.
12 Verily, verily, I say to you, He that believes on me, the works which I do shall he do also, and he shall do greater than these, because I go to the Father.
24 The hand of the diligent shall bear rule; but the slothful {hand} shall be under tribute.
24 The hand of the diligent shall bear rule; but the slothful {hand} shall be under tribute.
14 Let all things ye do be done in love.
12 I know that there is nothing good for them but to rejoice and to do well in their life;
13 yea also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labour, it is the gift of God.
14 Do all things without murmurings and reasonings,
15 that ye may be harmless and simple, irreproachable children of God in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation; among whom ye appear as lights in {the} world,
4 He cometh to want that dealeth with a slack hand; but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
22 The blessing of Jehovah, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow to it.
15 Strive diligently to present thyself approved to God, a workman that has not to be ashamed, cutting in a straight line the word of truth.
15 Strive diligently to present thyself approved to God, a workman that has not to be ashamed, cutting in a straight line the word of truth.
3 Commit thy works unto Jehovah, and thy thoughts shall be established.
3 Commit thy works unto Jehovah, and thy thoughts shall be established.
8 But God is able to make every gracious gift abound towards you, that, having in every way always all-sufficiency, ye may abound to every good work:
9 Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
13 Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, {and} thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
23 Whatsoever ye do, labour at it heartily, as {doing it} to the Lord, and not to men;
24 knowing that of {the} Lord ye shall receive the recompense of the inheritance; ye serve the Lord Christ.
19 Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and power to eat thereof, and to take his portion and to rejoice in his labour: that is a gift of God.
16 Every scripture {is} divinely inspired, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for correction, for instruction in righteousness;
17 that the man of God may be complete, fully fitted to every good work.
18 Behold what I have seen good and comely: {it is} to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labour wherewith {man} laboureth under the sun, all the days of his life which God hath given him: for that is his portion.
8 There is one {alone} and without a second; also he hath neither son nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour, neither is his eye satisfied with riches, and {he saith not}, For whom then am I labouring, and depriving my soul of good? This also is vanity and a grievous occupation.
8 See to yourselves, that we may not lose what we have wrought, but may receive full wages.
11 and to seek earnestly to be quiet and mind your own affairs, and work with your {own} hands, even as we charged you,
12 that ye may walk reputably towards those without, and may have need of no one.
11 Wealth {gotten} by vanity diminisheth; but he that gathereth by manual-labour shall increase {it}.
4 And I saw all labour, and all success of work, that it is man's jealousy of his neighbour. This also is vanity and pursuit of the wind.
10 Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, whither thou goest.
7 serving with good will as to the Lord, and not to men;
8 knowing that whatever good each shall do, this he shall receive of {the} Lord, whether bond or free.
17 And let the beauty of Jehovah our God be upon us; and establish thou the work of our hands upon us: yea, the work of our hands, establish thou it.
26 Look at the birds of the heaven, that they sow not, nor reap, nor gather into granaries, and your heavenly Father nourishes them. Are *ye* not much more excellent than they?
9 There remains then a sabbatism to the people of God.
10 For he that has entered into his rest, he also has rested from his works, as God did from his own.
28 Let the stealer steal no more, but rather let him toil, working what is honest with {his} hands, that he may have to distribute to him that has need.
58 So then, my beloved brethren, be firm, immovable, abounding always in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in {the} Lord.
24 But I make no account of {my} life {as} dear to myself, so that I finish my course, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the glad tidings of the grace of God.