Labor: General Scriptures Concerning

Scripture references

Gen 3:19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the
Exo 20:9–11 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, / but the seventh day is
Exo 23:12 For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you must
Exo 34:21 Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in
Lev 19:13 You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold
Deu 24:14, 15 Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether he is a
Deu 25:4 Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.
Ecc 5:12 The sleep of the worker is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the
Jer 22:13 “Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms
Mal 3:5 “Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness
Mat 20:1–15 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in
Luk 10:7 Stay at the same house, eating and drinking whatever you are offered. For
Act 20:35 In everything, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help
1Co 9:9 For it is written in the Law of Moses: “Do not muzzle an ox while it is
Eph 4:28 He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing good
1Th 4:11, 12 and to aspire to live quietly, to attend to your own matters, and to
2Th 3:7–13 For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we were not
1Ti 5:18 For the Scripture says, “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the
Jam 5:4 Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are