Quotes in Scripture About Work

We also notify you that it shall not be lawful to impose tribute, custom, or toll on any of the priests, the Levites, the singers, the doorkeepers, the temple servants, or other servants of this house of God.

Ezra 7:24 NRSV

He has filled them with skill to do every kind of work done by an artisan or by a designer or by an embroiderer in blue, purple, and crimson yarns, and in fine linen, or by a weaver – by any sort of artisan or skilled designer.

Exodus 35:35 NRSV

They would give the money that was weighed out into the hands of the workers who had the oversight of the house of the LORD; then they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders who worked on the house of the LORD.

2 Kings 12:11 NRSV

You shall not withhold the wages of poor and needy laborers, whether other Israelites or aliens who reside in your land in one of your towns.

Deuteronomy 24:14 NRSV

Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.”

Genesis 1:26 NRSV

The elders of Gebal and its artisans were within you, caulking your seams; all the ships of the sea with their mariners were within you, to barter for your wares.

Ezekiel 27:9 NRSV

But the king said to Araunah, “No, but I will buy them from you for a price; I will not offer burnt offerings to the LORD my God that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

2 Samuel 24:24 NRSV

You have not bought me sweet cane with money, or satisfied me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins; you have wearied me with your iniquities.

Isaiah 43:24 NRSV

We must pay for the water we drink; the wood we get must be bought.

Lamentations 5:4 NRSV

On finding one pearl of great value, he went and sold all that he had and bought it.

Matthew 13:46 NRSV

Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to try them out; please accept my regrets.’

Luke 14:19 NRSV

Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.”

Genesis 11:4 NRSV

Then they came up to him and said, “We will build sheepfolds here for our flocks, and towns for our little ones,

Numbers 32:1 NRSV

When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof; otherwise you might have bloodguilt on your house, if anyone should fall from it.

Deuteronomy 22:8 NRSV

So Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders and the Gebalites did the stonecutting and prepared the timber and the stone to build the house.

1 Kings 5:18 NRSV

They shall build houses and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

Isaiah 65:21 NRSV

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous,”

Matthew 23:29 NRSV

“Then he said, ‘I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.”

Luke 12:18 NRSV

Solomon made a marriage alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt; he took Pharaoh’s daughter and brought her into the city of David, until he had finished building his own house and the house of the LORD and the wall around Jerusalem.
1 Kings 3:1 NRSV

These are Solomon’s measurements for building the house of God: the length, in cubits of the old standard, was sixty cubits, and the width twenty cubits.

2 Chronicles 3:3 NRSV

That one is like a man building a house, who dug deeply and laid the foundation on rock; when a flood arose, the river burst against that house but could not shake it, because it had been well built.

Luke 6:48 NRSV

The LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which mortals had built.

Genesis 11:5 NRSV

When you have eaten your fill and have built fine houses and live in them,

Deuteronomy 8:12 NRSV

So he built the house, and finished it; he roofed the house with beams and planks of cedar.

1 Kings 6:9 NRSV

Now when the wall had been built and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites had been appointed,

Nehemiah 7:1 NRSV

“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock.”

Matthew 7:24 NRSV

(For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.)

Hebrews 3:4 NRSV

But Judah said, “The strength of the burden bearers is failing, and there is too much rubbish so that we are unable to work on the wall.”

Nehemiah 4:10 NRSV

saying, ‘These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.’

Matthew 20:12 NRSV

Some went down to the sea in ships, doing business on the mighty waters;

Psalm 107:23 NRSV

Moreover, all the world came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, because the famine became severe throughout the world.

Genesis 41:57 NRSV

But the king said to Araunah, “No, but I will buy them from you for a price; I will not offer burnt offerings to the LORD my God that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

2 Samuel 24:24 NRSV

“send them away so that they may go into the surrounding country and villages and buy something for themselves to eat.”

Mark 6:36 NRSV

The workers in flax will be in despair, and the carders and those at the loom will grow pale.

Isaiah 19:9 NRSV

“Is not this the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother called Mary? And are not his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas?”

Matthew 13:55 NRSV

So he lined the house with gold – its beams, its thresholds, its walls, and its doors; and he carved cherubim on the walls.

2 Chronicles 3:7 NRSV

Jonathan, David’s uncle, was a counselor, being a man of understanding and a scribe; Jehiel son of Hachmoni attended the king’s sons.

1 Chronicles 27:32  NRSV

He wrote letters in the name of King Ahasuerus, sealed them with the king’s ring, and sent them by mounted couriers riding on fast steeds bred from the royal herd.

Esther 8:10 NRSV

If you lend money to my people, to the poor among you, you shall not deal with them as a creditor; you shall not exact interest from them.

Exodus 22:25 NRSV

“A certain creditor had two debtors; one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.”

Luke 7:41 NRSV

Send me also cedar, cypress, and algum timber from Lebanon, for I know that your servants are skilled in cutting Lebanon timber. My servants will work with your servants

2 Chronicles 2:8 NRSV

Singers and dancers alike say, “All my springs are in you.”

Psalms 87:7 NRSV

“A certain creditor had two debtors; one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.”

Luke 7:41 NRSV

He has filled them with skill to do every kind of work done by an artisan or by a designer or by an embroiderer in blue, purple, and crimson yarns, and in fine linen, or by a weaver– by any sort of artisan or skilled designer.

Exodus 35:35 NRSV

Then the manager said to himself, ‘What will I do, now that my master is taking the position away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg.

Luke 16:3 NRSV

You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm shall eat them.

Deuteronomy 28:39 NRSV

These traded with you in choice garments, in clothes of blue and embroidered work, and in carpets of colored material, bound with cords and made secure; in these they traded with you.

Ezekiel 27:24 NRSV

As a gem-cutter engraves signets, so you shall engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel; you shall mount them in settings of gold filigree.

Exodus 28:11 NRSV

So he got up and went. Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of the Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, in charge of her entire treasury. He had come to Jerusalem to worship

Acts 8:27 NRSV

Joseph collected all the money to be found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, in exchange for the grain that they bought; and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.

Genesis 47:14 NRSV

and the inhabitants of the earth will gloat over them and celebrate and exchange presents, because these two prophets had been a torment to the inhabitants of the earth.

Revelation 11:10 NRSV

But they made light of it and went away, one to his farm, another to his business,

Matthew 22:5 NRSV

Be dismayed, you farmers, wail, you vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley; for the crops of the field are ruined.

Joel 1:11 NRSV

The gatekeepers were: Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman; and their kindred Shallum was the chief,

1 Chronicles 9:17 NRSV

For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield;

Exodus 23:10 NRSV

“His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the granary; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”

Matthew 3:12 NRSV

and when all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone from the mouth of the well, and water the sheep, and put the stone back in its place on the mouth of the well.

Genesis 29:3 NRSV

for each tree is known by its own fruit. Figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush.

Luke 6:44 NRSV

So she went. She came and gleaned in the field behind the reapers. As it happened, she came to the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.

Ruth 2:3 NRSV

The artisan encourages the goldsmith, and the one who smooths with the hammer encourages the one who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, “It is good”; and they fasten it with nails so that it cannot be moved.

Isaiah 41:7 NRSV

And between the upper room of the corner and the Sheep Gate the goldsmiths and the merchants made repairs.

Nehemiah 3:32 NRSV

houses filled with all sorts of goods that you did not fill, hewn cisterns that you did not hew, vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant– and when you have eaten your fill,

Deuteronomy 6:11 NRSV

and there was strife between the herders of Abram’s livestock and the herders of Lot’s livestock. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites lived in the land.

Genesis 13:7 NRSV

they would sell their possessions and goods and distribute the proceeds to all, as any had need.

Acts 2:45 NRSV

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities; for there is no authority except from God, and those authorities that exist have been instituted by God.

Romans 13:1 NRSV

Then Amos answered Amaziah, “I am no prophet, nor a prophet’s son; but I am a herdsman, and a dresser of sycamore trees,

Amos 7:14 NRSV

Now Jesus stood before the governor; and the governor asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” Jesus said, “You say so.”

Matthew 27:11 NRSV

Thus says the LORD of hosts: Glean thoroughly as a vine the remnant of Israel; like a grape-gatherer, pass your hand again over its branches.

Jeremiah 6:9 NRSV

in the day when the guards of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the women who grind cease working because they are few, and those who look through the windows see dimly;

Ecclesiastes 12:3 NRSV

and the sound of harpists and minstrels and of flutists and trumpeters will be heard in you no more; and an artisan of any trade will be found in you no more; and the sound of the millstone will be heard in you no more;

Revelation 18:22 NRSV

Do those who plow for sowing plow continually? Do they continually open and harrow their ground?

Isaiah 28:24 NRSV

In the days of wheat harvest Reuben went and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

Genesis 30:14 NRSV

Let both of them grow together until the harvest; and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, Collect the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.’”

Matthew 13:30 NRSV

For before the harvest, when the blossom is over and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the shoots with pruning hooks, and the spreading branches he will hew away.

Isaiah 18:5 NRSV

You shall observe the festival of harvest, of the first fruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field. You shall observe the festival of ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in from the field the fruit of your labor.

Exodus 23:16 NRSV