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

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.

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone will not work, neither let him eat.” — read the full passage →

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 →

After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth. — read the full passage →

Let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men, — read the full passage →

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

He has filled them with wisdom of heart, to work all kinds of workmanship, of the engraver, of the skillful workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of those who do any workmanship, and of those who make skillful works.

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

“For it is like a man, going into another country, who called his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them. — read the full passage →

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.”

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

Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother called Mary, and his brothers, James, Joses, Simon, and Judas?

He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.

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

We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.

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

She seeks wool and flax, and works eagerly with her hands. — read the full passage →

and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all kinds of workmanship, — read the full passage →

He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth. — read the full passage →

Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Don’t go from house to house.

Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judah, and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” They were offended at him.

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.

and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.

One who works his land will have an abundance of food; but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.

God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.

You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me. — read the full passage →

Build houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat their fruit. — read the full passage →

Whoever tends the fig tree shall eat its fruit. He who looks after his master shall be honored.

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

As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.

Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called. — read the full passage →

She considers a field, and buys it. With the fruit of her hands, she plants a vineyard. — read the full passage →

She makes linen garments and sells them, and delivers sashes to the merchant.

He said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?”

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →

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

The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

Soldiers also asked him, saying, “What about us? What must we do?” He said to them, “Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages.”

And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food, — read the full passage →

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;

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, — read the full passage →

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him? — 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 →

He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers; — read the full passage →

Now there are various kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit. — read the full passage →

According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.

For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building. — read the full passage →

For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

‘For in him we live, and move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’

So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.” — read the full passage →

If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. — read the full passage →

He said therefore, “A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return. — read the full passage →

When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep, and let down your nets for a catch.” — read the full passage →

When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep, and let down your nets for a catch.” — read the full passage →

There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the priestly division of Abijah. He had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. — read the full passage →

“For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. — read the full passage →

Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother called Mary, and his brothers, James, Joses, Simon, and Judas? — read the full passage →

Walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers: Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew, his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen. — read the full passage →

Then I went down to the potter’s house, and behold, he was making a work on the wheels. — read the full passage →

She seeks wool and flax, and works eagerly with her hands. — read the full passage →

She seeks wool and flax, and works eagerly with her hands. — read the full passage →

I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; — read the full passage →

A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth. The work of a man’s hands shall be rewarded to him.

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

What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him? — read the full passage →

For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain.” And, “The laborer is worthy of his wages.”

For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.

I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to think the same way in the Lord. — read the full passage →

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ; — read the full passage →

He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;

Therefore he says, “When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men.” — read the full passage →

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more. — read the full passage →

The assemblies of Asia greet you. Aquila and Priscilla greet you much in the Lord, together with the assembly that is in their house.

For since death came by man, the resurrection of the dead also came by man. — read the full passage →

let your wives keep silent in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as the law also says.

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved.

Greet Andronicus and Junia, my relatives and my fellow prisoners, who are notable among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.

Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,

I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is a servant of the assembly that is at Cenchreae,

I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is a servant of the assembly that is at Cenchreae, — read the full passage →

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 →

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. — read the full passage →

Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside, and explained to him the way of God more accurately.

Paul, having stayed after this many more days, took his leave of the brothers, and sailed from there for Syria, together with Priscilla and Aquila. He shaved his head in Cenchreae, for he had a vow.