Bible Verses about

The Obligation To Work


1 Corinthians 3:9

For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.

Numbers 18:3

And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die.

Romans 1:14

I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.

Romans 4:4

Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.

Romans 8:12

Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

1 Thessalonians 4:11

And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;

2 Thessalonians 2:13

But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

Deuteronomy 24:5

When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.

Galatians 5:18

But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

John 9:4

I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

Nehemiah 10:32

Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;

Numbers 8:26

But shall minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of the congregation, to keep the charge, and shall do no service. Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charge.

Philippians 3:14

I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.