Careers

Commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the Lord for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.

Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

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

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:

Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.

For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: — read the full passage →

A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.

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

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

He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.

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

And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews. — read the full passage →

He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. — read the full passage →

There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.

In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Beth–lehemite, that is cunning in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a comely person, and the Lord is with him.

When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father in law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt; — read the full passage →

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting. — read the full passage →

Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant. — read the full passage →

Children in whom was no blemish, but well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability in them to stand in the king’s palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans.

A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold. — read the full passage →

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

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 beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. — read the full passage →

For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. — read the full passage →

Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?

Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.

The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

There are many devices in a man’s heart; nevertheless the counsel of the Lord, that shall stand.

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. — read the full passage →

And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots. — read the full passage →

And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel. — read the full passage →

From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.

And Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of Israel together, and said unto them, These are the words which the Lord hath commanded, that ye should do them. — read the full passage →

And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. — read the full passage →

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.

And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; — read the full passage →

And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; — read the full passage →

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

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

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.

And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:

And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there:

I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. — read the full passage →

John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.

Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me.

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. — read the full passage →

I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life. — read the full passage →

Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.

He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.

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 let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. — read the full passage →

I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. — read the full passage →

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; — read the full passage →

Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,

We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.

For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed, — read the full passage →

For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, because he would not spend the time in Asia: for he hasted, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost.

After these things were ended, Paul purposed 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.

After they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them not.

Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. — read the full passage →

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. — read the full passage →

Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.

Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

A man’s gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; — read the full passage →

For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. — read the full passage →

Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil. — read the full passage →

Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:

And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house:

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king’s house, over against the king’s house: and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the gate of the house. — read the full passage →