TOPICAL BIBLE
Labor
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Genesis 3:19in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.Exodus 20:9Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work;Exodus 20:10but the seventh day is a sabbath unto Jehovah thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:Exodus 20:11for in six days Jehovah made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore Jehovah blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.Exodus 23:12Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest; that thine ox and thine ass may have rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the sojourner, may be refreshed.Exodus 34:21Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in plowing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.Leviticus 19:13Thou shalt not oppress thy neighbor, nor rob him: the wages of a hired servant shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.Deuteronomy 24:14Thou shalt not oppress a hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy sojourners that are in thy land within thy gates:Deuteronomy 24:15in his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it (for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it); lest he cry against thee unto Jehovah, and it be sin unto thee.Deuteronomy 25:4Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the grain.Ecclesiastes 5:12The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much; but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.Jeremiah 22:13Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by injustice; that useth his neighbor’s service without wages, and giveth him not his hire;Malachi 3:5And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the sojourner from his right, and fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts.Matthew 20:1For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that was a householder, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers into his vineyard.Matthew 20:2And when he had agreed with the laborers for a shilling a day, he sent them into his vineyard.Matthew 20:3And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing in the marketplace idle;Matthew 20:4and to them he said, Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way.Matthew 20:5Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did likewise.Matthew 20:6And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing; and he saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?Matthew 20:7They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard.Matthew 20:8And when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the laborers, and pay them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first.Matthew 20:9And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a shilling.Matthew 20:10And when the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise received every man a shilling.Matthew 20:11And when they received it, they murmured against the householder,Matthew 20:12saying, These last have spent but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.Matthew 20:13But he answered and said to one of them, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a shilling?Matthew 20:14Take up that which is thine, and go thy way; it is my will to give unto this last, even as unto thee.Matthew 20:15Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? or is thine eye evil, because I am good?Luke 10:7And in that same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the laborer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.Acts 20:35In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring ye ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.1 Corinthians 9:9For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. Is it for the oxen that God careth,Ephesians 4:28Let 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.1 Thessalonians 4:11and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your hands, even as we charged you;1 Thessalonians 4:12that ye may walk becomingly toward them that are without, and may have need of nothing.2 Thessalonians 3:7For yourselves know how ye ought to imitate us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;2 Thessalonians 3:8neither did we eat bread for nought at any man’s hand, but in labor and travail, working night and day, that we might not burden any of you:2 Thessalonians 3:9not because we have not the right, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you, that ye should imitate us.2 Thessalonians 3:10For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, If any will not work, neither let him eat.2 Thessalonians 3:11For we hear of some that walk among you disorderly, that work not at all, but are busybodies.2 Thessalonians 3:12Now them that are such we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.2 Thessalonians 3:13But ye, brethren, be not weary in well-doing.1 Timothy 5:18For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. And, The laborer is worthy of his hire.James 5:4Behold, 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.
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