195 Bible Verses about Work Ethic
Want to know what the Bible says about Work Ethic? Here are 195 Bible verses about Work Ethic from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.
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2 Thessalonians 3:6 NIV
In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we command you, brothers and sisters, to keep away from every believer who is idle and disruptive and does not live according to the teaching you received from us.
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Ecclesiastes 2:24 NIV
A person can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in their own toil. This too, I see, is from the hand of God,
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Genesis 3:17 NIV
To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’
“Cursed is the ground because of you;
through painful toil you will eat food from it
all the days of your life.
through painful toil you will eat food from it
all the days of your life.
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Ecclesiastes 11:6 NIV
Sow your seed in the morning,
and at evening let your hands not be idle,
for you do not know which will succeed,
whether this or that,
or whether both will do equally well.
and at evening let your hands not be idle,
for you do not know which will succeed,
whether this or that,
or whether both will do equally well.
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1 Timothy 5:13-14 NIV
13 Besides, they get into the habit of being idle and going about from house to house. And not only do they become idlers, but also busybodies who talk nonsense, saying things they ought not to. 14 So I counsel younger widows to marry, to have children, to manage their homes and to give the enemy no opportunity for slander.
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Proverbs 6:10 NIV
A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to rest —
a little folding of the hands to rest —
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Proverbs 16:2 NIV
All a person’s ways seem pure to them,
but motives are weighed by the Lord.
but motives are weighed by the Lord.
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Proverbs 30:15 NIV
“The leech has two daughters.
‘Give! Give!’ they cry.
‘Give! Give!’ they cry.
“There are three things that are never satisfied,
four that never say, ‘Enough!’:
four that never say, ‘Enough!’:
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Proverbs 19:15 NIV
Laziness brings on deep sleep,
and the shiftless go hungry.
and the shiftless go hungry.
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Proverbs 16:8 NIV
Better a little with righteousness
than much gain with injustice.
than much gain with injustice.
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