Getting A Job

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

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.

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 →

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.

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

“‘Let every wise-hearted man among you come, and make all that Yahweh has commanded:

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 →

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

Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise; — read the full passage →

Now therefore command that they cut me cedar trees out of Lebanon. My servants shall be with your servants; and I will give you wages for your servants according to all that you shall say. For you know that there is not among us any who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians.”

He said to them, “Come after me, and I will make you fishers for men.”

For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.

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.”

You shall speak to all who are wise-hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they make Aaron’s garments to sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office.

But let each man test his own work, and then he will take pride in himself and not in his neighbor.

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

I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. — read the full passage →

The king spoke to Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring in some of the children of Israel, even of the seed royal and of the nobles; — read the full passage →

Thus says Yahweh, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

“Now therefore send me a man skillful to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and who knows how to engrave engravings, to be with the skillful men who are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father provided.

Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was over the song: he instructed about the song, because he was skillful.

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 →

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