For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, If any will not work, neither let him eat.
And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose.
Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have whereof to give to him that hath need.
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;
who in time past were no people, but now are the people of God: who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. And, The laborer is worthy of his hire.
But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
whatsoever ye do, work heartily, as unto the Lord, and not unto men; — read the full passage →
And whatsoever ye do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.
and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;
For no word from God shall be void of power.
for God is not unrighteous to forget your work and the love which ye showed toward his name, in that ye ministered unto the saints, and still do minister.
Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth.
For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
And my God shall supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not vain in the Lord.
Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.
For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members have not the same office: — read the full passage →
For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to us-ward.
And the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren that dwelt in Judæa:
These things have I spoken unto you, that in me ye may have peace. In the world ye have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
If ye shall ask anything in my name, that will I do.
Work not for the food which perisheth, but for the food which abideth unto eternal life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him the Father, even God, hath sealed.
Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. — 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 we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God afore prepared that we should walk in them.
And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and one said, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. — read the full passage →
For there are certain men crept in privily, even they who were of old written of beforehand unto this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. — read the full passage →
Tend the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not of constraint, but willingly, according to the will of God; nor yet for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are of the Dispersion, greeting. — read the full passage →
Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk,—that ye abound more and more. — read the full passage →
among whom we also all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:— — read the full passage →
He said therefore to the multitudes that went out to be baptized of him, Ye offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? — read the full passage →
Jesus said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or mother, or father, or children, or lands, for my sake, and for the gospel’s sake, — read the full passage →
Get you no gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses; — read the full passage →
Take heed that ye do not your righteousness before men, to be seen of them: else ye have no reward with your Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →
And in those days cometh John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judæa, saying, — read the full passage →
Topical index adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0). Verse text: ASV.