Labor

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:

• Paul
• Diligence

For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

• Alms

For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;

And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.

A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.

Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.

{A Song of degrees for Solomon.} Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;

Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion.

Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.

For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?

• Inherited
• Property

For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.

For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?

There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.

Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?

Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

• FIGURATIVE
• Seal

Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.

All these are the beginning of sorrows.

In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.

• Church
• Church

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

For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.

For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.

The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.

Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.

I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.

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

Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.

The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.

• Heaven

And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.

• Tested
• Heart

I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:

Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me;

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

• Servant

Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

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

• Power

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

• Corruption
• Death

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;

• Servant

And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.