hebrews 6:10 niv

God is not unjust; He will not forget your work and the love you have shown Him as you have helped His people and continue to help them.

i corinthians 15:58 esv

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.

proverbs 14:23 nas

In all labor there is profit, But mere talk leads only to poverty.

luke 9:62 niv

Jesus replied, "No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God."

matthew 15:7-8 niv

You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you: " ‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me.

isaiah 55:2 niv

Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to Me, and eat what is good, and you will delight in the richest of fare.

isaiah 29:15 niv

Woe to those who go to great depths to hide their plans from the LORD, who do their work in darkness and think, "Who sees us? Who will know?"

proverbs 26:13-16 niv

A sluggard says, "There’s a lion in the road, a fierce lion roaming the streets!" As a door turns on its hinges, so a sluggard turns on his bed. A sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth. A sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven people who answer discreetly.

matthew 25:18, 24-27 niv

But the man who had received one bag went off, dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s money.

"Then the man who had received one bag of gold came. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘I knew that you are a hard man, harvesting where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed. So I was afraid and went out and hid your gold in the ground. See, here is what belongs to you.’

"His master replied, ‘You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed? Well then, you should have put my money on deposit with the bankers, so that when I returned I would have received it back with interest.

mark 7:9 niv

And He continued, "You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions!

luke 12:21 niv

This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God.

ii samuel 11:1ff niv

In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, David sent Joab out with the king’s men and the whole Israelite army. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem.

ephesians 4:1 niv

As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received.

proverbs 31:27, 25 niv

She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.

She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come.

proverbs 28:1 niv

The wicked flee though no one pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion.

ecclesiastes 5:18 niv

This is what I have observed to be good: that it is appropriate for a person to eat, to drink and to find satisfaction in their toilsome labor under the sun during the few days of life God has given them—for this is their lot.

ecclesiastes 2:25 esv

for apart from Him who can eat or who can have enjoyment?

matthew 11:28-30 niv

Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light."

john 4:34 esv

Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him Who sent Me and to accomplish His work.

isaiah 40:31 niv

but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.

acts 24:16 niv

So I strive always to keep my conscience clear before God and man.

luke 17:7-10 niv

"Suppose one of you has a servant plowing or looking after the sheep. Will he say to the servant when he comes in from the field, ‘Come along now and sit down to eat’? Won’t he rather say, ‘Prepare my supper, get yourself ready and wait on me while I eat and drink; after that you may eat and drink’? Will he thank the servant because he did what he was told to do? So you also, when you have done everything you were told to do, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’ "

ecclesiastes 5:12 niv

The sleep of a laborer is sweet, whether they eat little or much, but as for the rich, their abundance permits them no sleep.

isaiah 57:20-21 niv

But the wicked are like the tossing sea, which cannot rest, whose waves cast up mire and mud. "There is no peace," says my God, "for the wicked."

proverbs 13:15 nkjv

Good understanding gains favor, But the way of the unfaithful is hard.

proverbs 19:15-16 nas

Laziness casts into a deep sleep, And an idle man will suffer hunger. He who keeps the commandment keeps his soul, But he who is careless of conduct will die.

proverbs 24:30-34 niv

I went past the field of a sluggard, past the vineyard of someone who has no sense; thorns had come up everywhere, the ground was covered with weeds, and the stone wall was in ruins. I applied my heart to what I observed and learned a lesson from what I saw: A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest— and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man.

ecclesiastes 10:18 niv

Through laziness, the rafters sag; because of idle hands, the house leaks.

proverbs 14:23 nas

In all labor there is profit, But mere talk leads only to poverty.

luke 19:23 nlt

why didn’t you deposit my money in the bank? At least I could have gotten some interest on it.

proverbs 18:9 niv

One who is slack in his work is brother to one who destroys.

proverbs 21:5 nlt

Good planning and hard work lead to prosperity, but hasty shortcuts lead to poverty.

proverbs 13:4 csb

The slacker craves, yet has nothing, but the diligent is fully satisfied.

proverbs 29:9 niv

If a wise person goes to court with a fool, the fool rages and scoffs, and there is no peace.

ecclesiastes 2:3-26 nkjv

I searched in my heart how to gratify my flesh with wine, while guiding my heart with wisdom, and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under heaven all the days of their lives.

I made my works great, I built myself houses, and planted myself vineyards. I made myself gardens and orchards, and I planted all kinds of fruit trees in them. I made myself water pools from which to water the growing trees of the grove.

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done And on the labor in which I had toiled; And indeed all was vanity and grasping for the wind. There was no profit under the sun.

Therefore I turned my heart and despaired of all the labor in which I had toiled under the sun.

For what has man for all his labor, and for the striving of his heart with which he has toiled under the sun? For all his days are sorrowful, and his work burdensome; even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.

proverbs 27:20 niv

Death and Destruction are never satisfied, and neither are human eyes.

ecclesiastes 1:3-8 niv

What do people gain from all their labors at which they toil under the sun? Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever. The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises. The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course. All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again. All things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing.

philippians 1:21-24, 2:17 niv

For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. If I am to go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. Yet what shall I choose? I do not know! I am torn between the two: I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far; but it is more necessary for you that I remain in the body.

But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service coming from your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you.

colossians 1:24-25, 28-29 csb

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I am completing in my flesh what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for His body, that is, the church. I have become its servant, according to God’s commission that was given to me for you, to make the Word of God fully known,

We proclaim Him, warning and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone mature in Christ. I labor for this, striving with His strength that works powerfully in me.

ii timothy 2:25-26 niv

Opponents must be gently instructed, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth, and that they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will.

isaiah 49:4 niv

But I said, "I have labored in vain; I have spent my strength for nothing at all. Yet what is due me is in the LORD’s hand, and my reward is with my God."

james 4:17 nlt

Remember, it is sin to know what you ought to do and then not do it.

hebrews 4:9-11 niv

There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works, just as God did from His. Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience.

ii timothy 2:15 niv

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the Word of Truth.

romans 6:13 niv

Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to Him as an instrument of righteousness.

hebrews 6:12 niv

We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.

revelations 21:6-8 niv

He said to me: "It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life. Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children. But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death."

genesis 18:19 niv

For I have chosen him, so that he will direct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, so that the LORD will bring about for Abraham what He has promised him."

romans 1:5 niv

Through Him we received grace and apostleship to call all the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith for His name’s sake.