Careers

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don’t have the same function, — read the full passage →

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — read the full passage →

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don’t want you to be ignorant. — read the full passage →

Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ; — read the full passage →

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

He said to him, “I will give you all of these things, if you will fall down and worship me.” — read the full passage →

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever. — read the full passage →

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone will not work, neither let him eat.”

and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you; — read the full passage →

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men, — read the full passage →

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, — read the full passage →

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.

Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there;

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. — read the full passage →

John answered, “A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given him from heaven.

Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

“To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers; — read the full passage →

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.

in pureness, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,

Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,

For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed, — read the full passage →

For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, that he might not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening, if it were possible for him, to be in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost.

Now after these things had ended, Paul determined in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”

When they had come opposite Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit didn’t allow them.

“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom. — read the full passage →

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.