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Work Ethic Colossians 3:23 ESV / 1,369 helpful votes Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,Proverbs 16:3 ESV / 931 helpful votes Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.Proverbs 14:23 ESV / 908 helpful votes In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.2 Thessalonians 3:10 ESV / 889 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.Ecclesiastes 9:10 ESV / 743 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 10:4 ESV / 704 helpful votes A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.Acts 20:35 ESV / 683 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.’”Proverbs 12:11 ESV / 637 helpful votes Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense.1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 514 helpful votes So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.Proverbs 13:4 ESV / 486 helpful votes The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.Genesis 2:15 ESV / 482 helpful votes The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.Ephesians 4:28 ESV / 474 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 22:29 ESV / 445 helpful votes Do you see a man skillful in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men.1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 442 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 128:2 ESV / 409 helpful votes You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.1 Corinthians 15:58 ESV / 390 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.Matthew 5:16 ESV / 357 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.Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 334 helpful votes Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.Proverbs 21:25 ESV / 320 helpful votes The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.2 Thessalonians 3:6-9 ESV / 310 helpful votes Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is walking in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us. For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we were not idle when we were with you, nor did we eat anyone’s bread without paying for it, but with toil and labor we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you. It was not because we do not have that right, but to give you in ourselves an example to imitate.Hebrews 6:10 ESV / 306 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.Proverbs 11:1 ESV / 305 helpful votes A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight.Colossians 3:17 ESV / 298 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.Psalm 90:17 ESV / 283 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!Proverbs 24:30-34 ESV / 270 helpful votes I passed by the field of a sluggard, by the vineyard of a man lacking sense, and behold, it was all overgrown with thorns; the ground was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down. Then I saw and considered it; I looked and received instruction. 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.
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