Jobs

There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

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

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:

Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.

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.

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

And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.

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

For with God nothing shall be impossible.

Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.

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.

The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.

The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.

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

I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.

For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

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.

Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

For as we have many members in one body, and all 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 in us.

Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judea:

These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.

Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.

Come unto me, all ye that labour 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:

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.

Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders which were carried away captives, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon; — read the full passage →

Thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.

Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. — read the full passage →

And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the Lord of Midian.

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

Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?

And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, 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 unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. — read the full passage →

Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not 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 scattered abroad, greeting. — read the full passage →

Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more. — read the full passage →

Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. — read the full passage →

Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? — read the full passage →

And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel’s, — read the full passage →

Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses, — read the full passage →

Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. — read the full passage →

In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, — read the full passage →

Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord God.

In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. — read the full passage →

For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them. — read the full passage →

My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; — read the full passage →

The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes. — read the full passage →

Then Job answered the Lord, and said, — read the full passage →

Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? — read the full passage →

Then Job answered the Lord, and said, — read the full passage →

Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve? — read the full passage →

Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, — read the full passage →

I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.

He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, — read the full passage →

Then Job answered and said, — read the full passage →

Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. — read the full passage →

Then Job answered and said, — read the full passage →

Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, — read the full passage →

Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. — read the full passage →

Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it. — read the full passage →

And Job answered and said, — read the full passage →

Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, — read the full passage →

My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. — read the full passage →

Then Job answered and said, — read the full passage →

Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, — read the full passage →

Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling? — read the full passage →

But Job answered and said, — read the full passage →

Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn? — read the full passage →

But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, — read the full passage →

After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. — read the full passage →

So went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown. — read the full passage →

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 →

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 →

After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him. — 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 →