Careers

Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

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.

Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to Yahweh for it; for in its peace you shall have peace.

Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

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

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

Through wisdom a house is built; by understanding it is established;

Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings. He won’t serve obscure men.

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

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

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?

One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.

In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews. — read the full passage →

He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. — read the full passage →

There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man swallows it up.

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

Then one of the young men answered, and said, “Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skillful in playing, a mighty man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a comely person; and Yahweh is with him.”

Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, how that Yahweh 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 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 →

youths in whom was no defect, but well-favored, and skillful in all wisdom, and endowed with knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability to stand in the king’s palace; and that he should teach them the learning and the language of the Chaldeans.

A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold. — 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 →

Therefore I saw that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what will be after him?

Prepare your work outside, and get your fields ready. Afterwards, build your house.

The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.

There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; — read the full passage →

He said, “This will be the way of the king who shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them to him, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they shall run before his chariots; — read the full passage →

When Samuel was old, he made his sons judges over Israel. — read the full passage →

from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go out to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall number them by their divisions.

Moses assembled all the congregation of the children of Israel, and said to them, “These are the words which Yahweh has commanded, that you should do them. — read the full passage →

Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

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.

I have made the earth, the men and the animals that are on the surface of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I give it to whom it seems right to me.

Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion. — read the full passage →

I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live. — read the full passage →

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

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

Unless Yahweh builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.

Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us; establish the work of our hands for us; yes, establish the work of our hands.

Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness. — read the full passage →

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

“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.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future. — read the full passage →

Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, and whose trust Yahweh is.

Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? why then isn’t 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 makes room for him, and brings him before great men.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

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

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. — read the full passage →

My eyes stay open through the night watches, that I might meditate on your word.

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil. — read the full passage →

You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers, or one of the foreigners who are in your land within your gates.

It fell on 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. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

Now on the third day, Esther put on her royal clothing, and stood in the inner court of the king’s house, next to the king’s house. The king sat on his royal throne in the royal house, next to the entrance of the house. — read the full passage →