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Bible Verses About Labor
Find Bible verses about labor — curated from 31,000+ verses with emotional and contextual scoring. What Scripture actually says.
What does the Bible say about labor?
The Bible addresses labor with deep compassion and clarity. From the Psalms to the words of Jesus, Scripture meets you in this exact feeling and offers comfort, strength, and direction. Here are the most powerful verses — each chosen because they speak directly to what you're going through.
Most Powerful Verses
Colossians 1:29
“for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.”
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2 Timothy 2:6
“The farmers who labor must be the first to get a share of the crops.”
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Ecclesiastes 2:18
“I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.”
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Ecclesiastes 4:4
“Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man's neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.”
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Genesis 3:19
“By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."”
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Matthew 11:28
“"Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.”
Psalms 90:10
“The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.”
Psalms 127:1
“Unless Yahweh builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.”
Ecclesiastes 4:9
“Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.”
Ecclesiastes 4:6
“Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and chasing after wind.”
Ecclesiastes 1:3
“What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?”
Proverbs 21:25
“The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.”
Job 7:1
“"Isn't a man forced to labor on earth? Aren't his days like the days of a hired hand?”
1 Timothy 5:17
“Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.”
Hebrews 6:10
“For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.”
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Psalms 128:2 — “For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you....”
John 4:37 — “For in this the saying is true, 'One sows, and another reaps.'...”
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