Workers Acts 20:35 ESV / 21 helpful votes In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”Colossians 3:23 ESV / 17 helpful votes Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 12 helpful votes But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.Ephesians 4:28 ESV / 12 helpful votes Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.Proverbs 14:23 ESV / 12 helpful votes In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.Psalm 90:17 ESV / 11 helpful votes Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands upon us; yes, establish the work of our hands!Ephesians 6:9 ESV / 10 helpful votes Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him.1 Corinthians 15:58 ESV / 10 helpful votes 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.John 5:17 ESV / 10 helpful votes But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.”Proverbs 31:6-7 ESV / 10 helpful votes Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress; let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more.Proverbs 16:3 ESV / 10 helpful votes Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.Revelation 14:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.3 John 1:8 ESV / 8 helpful votes Therefore we ought to support people like these, that we may be fellow workers for the truth.Proverbs 18:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes Whoever is slack in his work is a brother to him who destroys.Proverbs 12:24 ESV / 8 helpful votes The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor.Proverbs 12:11 ESV / 8 helpful votes Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense.Genesis 2:15 ESV / 8 helpful votes The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.James 5:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 7 helpful votes Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 7 helpful votes Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 7 helpful votes In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. …Colossians 3:23-24 ESV / 6 helpful votes Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.Colossians 3:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.Colossians 3:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
Working?
Working Colossians 3:23 ESV / 107 helpful votes Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,2 Thessalonians 3:10 ESV / 70 helpful votes For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 65 helpful votes But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 ESV / 55 helpful votes And to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you, so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one.Ecclesiastes 2:21 ESV / 35 helpful votes Because sometimes a person who has toiled with wisdom and knowledge and skill must leave everything to be enjoyed by someone who did not toil for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.Ecclesiastes 9:10 ESV / 20 helpful votes Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.Romans 10:9 ESV / 17 helpful votes Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.Luke 10:30-37 ESV / 16 helpful votes Jesus replied, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a priest was going down that road, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side. So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion. He went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him. …Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 13 helpful votes Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. …1 John 4:18 ESV / 8 helpful votes There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”Deuteronomy 28:1-68 ESV / 7 helpful votes “And if you faithfully obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the Lord your God. Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field. Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock. Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. …Matthew 5:38-39 ESV / 6 helpful votes “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.John 14:26 ESV / 5 helpful votes But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.Matthew 5:5-7:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy. “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. …Ecclesiastes 6:1-12 ESV / 5 helpful votes There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it lies heavy on mankind: a man to whom God gives wealth, possessions, and honor, so that he lacks nothing of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to enjoy them, but a stranger enjoys them. This is vanity; it is a grievous evil. If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with life’s good things, and he also has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he. For it comes in vanity and goes in darkness, and in darkness its name is covered. Moreover, it has not seen the sun or known anything
Working For God?
Working For God Colossians 3:23 ESV / 111 helpful votes Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,1 Corinthians 15:58 ESV / 77 helpful votes 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.2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 69 helpful votes Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.Proverbs 14:23 ESV / 59 helpful votes In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.Colossians 3:23-24 ESV / 57 helpful votes Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 57 helpful votes For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.John 5:17 ESV / 54 helpful votes But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.”Philippians 2:12-16 ESV / 48 helpful votes Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. Do all things without grumbling or questioning, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.1 Corinthians 3:9 ESV / 45 helpful votes For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s field, God’s building.2 Thessalonians 3:10 ESV / 41 helpful votes For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 39 helpful votes So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.Psalm 90:17 ESV / 38 helpful votes Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands upon us; yes, establish the work of our hands!Genesis 2:15 ESV / 36 helpful votes The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 34 helpful votes But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.Philippians 4:13 ESV / 34 helpful votes I can do all things through him who strengthens me.Hebrews 6:10 ESV / 33 helpful votes For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do.Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 32 helpful votes For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.Proverbs 16:3 ESV / 31 helpful votes Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.Proverbs 18:9 ESV / 30 helpful votes Whoever is slack in his work is a brother to him who destroys.Colossians 3:24 ESV / 29 helpful votes Knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.Galatians 6:9 ESV / 28 helpful votes And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.Ephesians 4:28 ESV / 27 helpful votes Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.Luke 1:37 ESV / 26 helpful votes For nothing will be impossible with God.”1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 24 helpful votes Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!Proverbs 12:11 ESV / 22 helpful votes Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense.
Working Hard?
Working Hard Proverbs 13:4 ESV / 123 helpful votes The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.Colossians 3:23 ESV / 61 helpful votes Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,Proverbs 14:23 ESV / 47 helpful votes In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.Proverbs 6:6-11 ESV / 44 helpful votes Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. Without having any chief, officer, or ruler, she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest. How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep? A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, …2 Thessalonians 3:10-12 ESV / 41 helpful votes For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat. For we hear that some among you walk in idleness, not busy at work, but busybodies. Now such persons we command and encourage in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living.Ecclesiastes 9:10 ESV / 26 helpful votes Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.Proverbs 12:24 ESV / 25 helpful votes The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor.Genesis 2:15 ESV / 25 helpful votes The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.Ecclesiastes 10:10 ESV / 24 helpful votes If the iron is blunt, and one does not sharpen the edge, he must use more strength, but wisdom helps one to succeed.Proverbs 12:11 ESV / 24 helpful votes Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense.Philippians 4:13 ESV / 23 helpful votes I can do all things through him who strengthens me.1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 22 helpful votes But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.Proverbs 18:9 ESV / 21 helpful votes Whoever is slack in his work is a brother to him who destroys.Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 20 helpful votes If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. …Proverbs 16:3 ESV / 20 helpful votes Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.2 Thessalonians 3:10 ESV / 19 helpful votes For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 19 helpful votes So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.Romans 15:1-2 ESV / 19 helpful votes We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.Acts 20:35 ESV / 18 helpful votes In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”Matthew 5:16 ESV / 17 helpful votes In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.Ephesians 4:28 ESV / 16 helpful votes Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.Proverbs 10:4 ESV / 16 helpful votes A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.Proverbs 6:6-8 ESV / 16 helpful votes Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. Without having any chief, officer, or ruler, she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest.2 Timothy 2:6 ESV / 15 helpful votes It is the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops.
Working Mothers?
Working Mothers Colossians 3:23-24 ESV / 23 helpful votes Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.Proverbs 31:10-31 ESV / 12 helpful votes An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain. She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life. She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands. She is like the ships of the merchant; she brings her food from afar. …Titus 2:5 ESV / 9 helpful votes To be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.Isaiah 40:1-31 ESV / 5 helpful votes Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins. A voice cries: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.” …1 Peter 3:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,Colossians 2:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 4 helpful votes The words of King Lemuel. An oracle that his mother taught him: What are you doing, my son? What are you doing, son of my womb? What are you doing, son of my vows? Do not give your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings. It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink, lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted. …Genesis 19:1-38 ESV / 4 helpful votes The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth and said, “My lords, please turn aside to your servant’s house and spend the night and wash your feet. Then you may rise up early and go on your way.” They said, “No; we will spend the night in the town square.” But he pressed them strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his house. And he made them a feast and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house. And they called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.” …Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 3 helpful votes Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, …Matthew 7:21-23 ESV / 3 helpful votes “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’Psalm 89:48 ESV / 3 helpful votes What man can live and never see death? Who can deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? SelahPsalm 22:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes To the choirmaster: according to The Doe of the Dawn. A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning? O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest. Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel. In you our fathers trusted; they trusted, and you delivered them. To you they cried and were rescued; in you they trusted and were not put to shame. …Revelation 13:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes And all who dwell on earth will worship it, eve
Working On Sunday?
Working On Sunday Exodus 35:2 ESV / 177 helpful votes Six days work shall be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on it shall be put to death.Exodus 20:8-11 ESV / 96 helpful votes “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.Numbers 15:32-41 ESV / 59 helpful votes While the people of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day. And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation. They put him in custody, because it had not been made clear what should be done to him. And the Lord said to Moses, “The man shall be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp.” And all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death with stones, as the Lord commanded Moses. …John 5:17 ESV / 43 helpful votes But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.”Colossians 2:16-17 ESV / 34 helpful votes Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.Acts 20:7 ESV / 33 helpful votes On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight.1 Corinthians 16:2 ESV / 20 helpful votes On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that there will be no collecting when I come.Matthew 28:1 ESV / 20 helpful votes Now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb.Romans 14:5-6 ESV / 18 helpful votes One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. The one who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. The one who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God, while the one who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God.Luke 24:1 ESV / 17 helpful votes But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared.Exodus 20:11 ESV / 17 helpful votes For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.Mark 2:27 ESV / 16 helpful votes And he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.Genesis 2:1-25 ESV / 16 helpful votes Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation. These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, …John 20:1 ESV / 15 helpful votes Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb.Proverbs 14:23 ESV / 15 helpful votes In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.Proverbs 12:11 ESV / 15 helpful votes Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense.Genesis 2:3 ESV / 15 helpful votes So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.Revelation 1:10 ESV / 14 helpful votes I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpetColossians 3:23 ESV / 14 helpful votes Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,1 Corinthians 16:1-2 ESV / 14 helpful votes Now concerning the collection for the saints: as I directed the churches of Galatia, so you also are to do. On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that there will be no collecting when I come.Mark 16:2 ESV / 14 helpful votes And very early on the first
Working On The Sabbath?
Working On The Sabbath Exodus 35:2 ESV / 154 helpful votes Six days work shall be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on it shall be put to death.Matthew 12:11-12 ESV / 83 helpful votes He said to them, “Which one of you who has a sheep, if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not take hold of it and lift it out? Of how much more value is a man than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”Exodus 20:10 ESV / 65 helpful votes But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates.Mark 2:27-28 ESV / 59 helpful votes And he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. So the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”Colossians 2:16 ESV / 53 helpful votes Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath.Exodus 35:3 ESV / 45 helpful votes You shall kindle no fire in all your dwelling places on the Sabbath day.”John 5:18 ESV / 42 helpful votes This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.Matthew 12:9-14 ESV / 42 helpful votes He went on from there and entered their synagogue. And a man was there with a withered hand. And they asked him, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”—so that they might accuse him. He said to them, “Which one of you who has a sheep, if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not take hold of it and lift it out? Of how much more value is a man than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.” Then he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And the man stretched it out, and it was restored, healthy like the other. …Exodus 20:8-11 ESV / 40 helpful votes “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.Mark 2:23 ESV / 38 helpful votes One Sabbath he was going through the grainfields, and as they made their way, his disciples began to pluck heads of grain.Leviticus 23:3 ESV / 38 helpful votes “Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work. It is a Sabbath to the Lord in all your dwelling places.Genesis 2:3 ESV / 36 helpful votes So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.Mark 2:27 ESV / 34 helpful votes And he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.Matthew 12:5 ESV / 32 helpful votes Or have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are guiltless?Luke 13:10-17 ESV / 30 helpful votes Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. And there was a woman who had had a disabling spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not fully straighten herself. When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said to her, “Woman, you are freed from your disability.” And he laid his hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and she glorified God. But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the people, “There are six days in which work ought to be done. Come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day.” …Mark 2:23-28 ESV / 30 helpful votes One Sabbath he was going through the grainfields, and as they made their way, his disciples began to pluck heads of grain. And the Pharisees were saying to him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?” And he said to them, “Have you never read what David did, when he was in need and was hungry, he and those who were with him: how he entered the house of God, in the time of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to those who were with him?” And he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. …Nehemiah 13:15-22 ESV / 29 helpful votes In those days I saw in Judah people treading winepresses on the Sabbath, and bringing in heaps of grain and loading them on donkeys, and also wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of loads, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. And I warned them on the day when they sold food. Tyrians also, who lived in the city, brought in fish and all
Working Out?
Working Out 1 Timothy 4:8 ESV / 98 helpful votes For while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 89 helpful votes Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.2 Timothy 3:1-5 ESV / 61 helpful votes But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.1 Corinthians 9:24-27 ESV / 53 helpful votes Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.Hebrews 12:11 ESV / 52 helpful votes For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.1 Thessalonians 4:4 ESV / 36 helpful votes That each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 19 helpful votes But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 15 helpful votes I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.Proverbs 24:5 ESV / 14 helpful votes A wise man is full of strength, and a man of knowledge enhances his might,1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 13 helpful votes So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.Proverbs 31:17 ESV / 13 helpful votes She dresses herself with strength and makes her arms strong.Proverbs 6:9-11 ESV / 13 helpful votes How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep? A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.1 Corinthians 9:27 ESV / 10 helpful votes But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.Mark 3:27 ESV / 10 helpful votes But no one can enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man. Then indeed he may plunder his house.James 3:16-17 ESV / 5 helpful votes For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice. But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.1 Peter 3:3-4 ESV / 4 helpful votes Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious.John 3:16-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Working Overtime?
Working Overtime Proverbs 23:4 ESV / 28 helpful votes Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist.Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 17 helpful votes Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”Philippians 4:13 ESV / 13 helpful votes I can do all things through him who strengthens me.Colossians 3:23 ESV / 10 helpful votes Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,John 10:10 ESV / 10 helpful votes The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.Proverbs 14:23 ESV / 9 helpful votes In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.Psalm 127:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep.John 3:16-17 ESV / 5 helpful votes “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.Isaiah 38:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes Behold, I will make the shadow cast by the declining sun on the dial of Ahaz turn back ten steps.” So the sun turned back on the dial the ten steps by which it had declined.Psalm 128:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.Psalm 90:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands upon us; yes, establish the work of our hands!1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.Hebrews 12:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 4 helpful votes Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.John 6:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes Do not labor for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.”Luke 22:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat,Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.Ecclesiastes 9:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.Proverbs 13:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.Proverbs 12:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor.Proverbs 12:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense.
Working Together?
Working Together Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 ESV / 967 helpful votes Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.Proverbs 27:17 ESV / 578 helpful votes Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.Hebrews 10:24-25 ESV / 519 helpful votes And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.Ecclesiastes 4:9 ESV / 393 helpful votes Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil.Matthew 18:20 ESV / 338 helpful votes For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”Psalm 133:1 ESV / 317 helpful votes A Song of Ascents. Of David. Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!Colossians 3:23 ESV / 288 helpful votes Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,Ephesians 4:16 ESV / 249 helpful votes From whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.1 Corinthians 3:9 ESV / 222 helpful votes For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s field, God’s building.1 Corinthians 1:10 ESV / 213 helpful votes I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.Galatians 6:9 ESV / 191 helpful votes And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.1 Thessalonians 5:14-22 ESV / 188 helpful votes And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all. See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to everyone. Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. …1 Corinthians 12:12-27 ESV / 188 helpful votes For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. For the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. …John 15:4-5 ESV / 149 helpful votes Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.Genesis 2:18 ESV / 148 helpful votes Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”3 John 1:8 ESV / 147 helpful votes Therefore we ought to support people like these, that we may be fellow workers for the truth.Romans 15:5-6 ESV / 146 helpful votes May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus, that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.1 John 1:7 ESV / 144 helpful votes But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.Romans 8:28 ESV / 140 helpful votes And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.Romans 12:16 ESV / 137 helpful votes Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight.Mark 6:7 ESV / 137 helpful votes And he called the twelve and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits.Romans 12:10 ESV / 120 helpful votes Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.Matthew 28:19-20 ESV / 120 helpful votes Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”