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  • John 5:17
    But Jesus answered them, "My Father has been working until now, and I have been working."
     
  • Genesis 3:17-19
    Then to Adam He said, "Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, "You shall not eat of it":
    "Cursed is the ground for your sake;
    In toil you shall eat of it
    All the days of your life.

    Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you,
    And you shall eat the herb of the field.

    In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread
    Till you return to the ground,
    For out of it you were taken;
    For dust you are,
    And to dust you shall return."
     
  • Philippians 2:12
    Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;
     
  • Ecclesiastes 2:18-24
    Then I hated all my labor in which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who will come after me. And who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will rule over all my labor in which I toiled and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity. Therefore I turned my heart and despaired of all the labor in which I had toiled under the sun. For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, knowledge, and skill; yet he must leave his heritage to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil. For what has man for all his labor, and for the striving of his heart with which he has toiled under the sun? For all his days are sorrowful, and his work burdensome; even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity. Nothing is better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that his soul should enjoy good in his labor. This also, I saw, was from the hand of God.
     
  • Hebrews 6:10
    For God is not unjust to forget your work and labor of love which you have shown toward His name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
     
  • Genesis 2:15
    Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it.
     
  • Proverbs 24:30-34
    I went by the field of the lazy man,
    And by the vineyard of the man devoid of understanding;
    And there it was, all overgrown with thorns;
    Its surface was covered with nettles;
    Its stone wall was broken down.
    When I saw it, I considered it well;
    I looked on it and received instruction:
    A little sleep, a little slumber,
    A little folding of the hands to rest;
    So shall your poverty come like a prowler,
    And your need like an armed man.
     
  • Ecclesiastes 2:10-11
    Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them.
    I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure,
    For my heart rejoiced in all my labor;
    And this was my reward from all my labor.
    Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done
    And on the labor in which I had toiled;
    And indeed all was vanity and grasping for the wind.
    There was no profit under the sun.
     
  • Ecclesiastes 2:26
    For God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy to a man who is good in His sight; but to the sinner He gives the work of gathering and collecting, that he may give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.
     
  • Ecclesiastes 3:9-10
    What profit has the worker from that in which he labors? I have seen the God-given task with which the sons of men are to be occupied.
     
  • Ecclesiastes 3:13
    and also that every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor—it is the gift of God.

     
  • Ecclesiastes 4:4
    Again, I saw that for all toil and every skillful work a man is envied by his neighbor. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.

     
  • Ecclesiastes 4:6
    Better a handful with quietness
    Than both hands full, together with toil and grasping for the wind.
     
  • Ecclesiastes 4:8-9
    There is one alone, without companion:
    He has neither son nor brother.
    Yet there is no end to all his labors,
    Nor is his eye satisfied with riches.
    But he never asks,
    “ For whom do I toil and deprive myself of good?”
    This also is vanity and a grave misfortune. Two are better than one,
    Because they have a good reward for their labor.

     
  • Ecclesiastes 9:9-10
    Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your vain life which He has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity; for that is your portion in life, and in the labor which you perform under the sun. Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work or device or knowledge or wisdom in the grave where you are going.
     
  • Romans 8:28
    And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
     
  • James 5:4
    Indeed the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
     
  • Genesis 31:42
    Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.”
     
  • Genesis 35:16-17
    Then they journeyed from Bethel. And when there was but a little distance to go to Ephrath, Rachel labored in childbirth, and she had hard labor. Now it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said to her, “Do not fear; you will have this son also.”
     
  • Genesis 38:28
    And so it was, when she was giving birth, that the one put out his hand; and the midwife took a scarlet thread and bound it on his hand, saying, "This one came out first."
     
  • Genesis 49:15
    He saw that rest was good,
    And that the land was pleasant;
    He bowed his shoulder to bear a burden,
    And became a band of slaves.
     
  • Exodus 1:11
    Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh supply cities, Pithom and Raamses.
     
  • Exodus 1:13-14
    So the Egyptians made the children of Israel serve with rigor. And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage—in mortar, in brick, and in all manner of service in the field. All their service in which they made them serve was with rigor.
     
  • Exodus 2:11
    Now it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out to his brethren and looked at their burdens. And he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his brethren.
     
  • Exodus 5:4-5
    Then the king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why do you take the people from their work? Get back to your labor.” And Pharaoh said, “Look, the people of the land are many now, and you make them rest from their labor!”
     
  • Exodus 5:9
    Let more work be laid on the men, that they may labor in it, and let them not regard false words.”
     
  • Exodus 5:11
    Go, get yourselves straw where you can find it; yet none of your work will be reduced.’”
     
  • Exodus 20:9
    Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
     
  • Exodus 23:12
    Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female servant and the stranger may be refreshed.
     
  • Exodus 23:16
    and the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors which you have sown in the field; and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you have gathered in the fruit of your labors from the field.
     
  • Exodus 31:17
    It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.'"
     
  • Exodus 34:21
    “Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.
     
  • Leviticus 23:7-8
    On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no customary work on it. But you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD for seven days. The seventh day shall be a holy convocation; you shall do no customary work on it.'"
     
  • Leviticus 23:21
    And you shall proclaim on the same day that it is a holy convocation to you. You shall do no customary work on it. It shall be a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
     
  • Leviticus 23:25
    You shall do no customary work on it; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD.'"
     
  • Leviticus 23:35-36
    On the first day there shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work on it. For seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD. On the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD. It is a sacred assembly, and you shall do no customary work on it.
     
  • Numbers 28:18
    On the first day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work.
     
  • Numbers 28:25-26
    And on the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work. ‘Also on the day of the firstfruits, when you bring a new grain offering to the LORD at your Feast of Weeks, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work.
     
  • Numbers 29:1
    ‘And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work. For you it is a day of blowing the trumpets.
     
  • Numbers 29:12
    ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work, and you shall keep a feast to the LORD seven days.
     
  • Numbers 29:35
    ‘On the eighth day you shall have a sacred assembly. You shall do no customary work.
     
  • Deuteronomy 5:13
    Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
     
  • Deuteronomy 11:10
    For the land which you go to possess is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and watered it by foot, as a vegetable garden;
     
  • Deuteronomy 20:11
    And it shall be that if they accept your offer of peace, and open to you, then all the people who are found in it shall be placed under tribute to you, and serve you.
     
  • Deuteronomy 24:5
    “When a man has taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war or be charged with any business; he shall be free at home one year, and bring happiness to his wife whom he has taken.
     
  • Deuteronomy 26:6-7
    But the Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and laid hard bondage on us. Then we cried out to the LORD God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our voice and looked on our affliction and our labor and our oppression.
     
  • Deuteronomy 28:33
    A nation whom you have not known shall eat the fruit of your land and the produce of your labor, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually.
     
  • Joshua 7:3
    And they returned to Joshua and said to him, "Do not let all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and attack Ai. Do not weary all the people there, for the people of Ai are few."
     
  • Joshua 16:10
    And they did not drive out the Canaanites who dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites to this day and have become forced laborers.
     
  • Joshua 17:13
    And it happened, when the children of Israel grew strong, that they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but did not utterly drive them out.
     
  • Joshua 24:13
    I have given you a land for which you did not labor, and cities which you did not build, and you dwell in them; you eat of the vineyards and olive groves which you did not plant.’
     
  • Judges 1:28
    And it came to pass, when Israel was strong, that they put the Canaanites under tribute, but did not completely drive them out.
     
  • Judges 1:30
    Nor did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron or the inhabitants of Nahalol; so the Canaanites dwelt among them, and were put under tribute.
     
  • Judges 1:33
    Nor did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh or the inhabitants of Beth Anath; but they dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land. Nevertheless the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh and Beth Anath were put under tribute to them.
     
  • Judges 1:35
    and the Amorites were determined to dwell in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim; yet when the strength of the house of Joseph became greater, they were put under tribute.
     
  • 1 Samuel 4:19
    Now his daughter-in-law, Phinehas’ wife, was with child, due to be delivered; and when she heard the news that the ark of God was captured, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and gave birth, for her labor pains came upon her.
     
  • 2 Samuel 12:31
    And he brought out the people who were in it, and put them to work with saws and iron picks and iron axes, and made them cross over to the brick works. So he did to all the cities of the people of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
     
  • 2 Samuel 20:24
    Adoram was in charge of revenue; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;
     
  • 1 Kings 4:1
    So King Solomon was king over all Israel.
     
  • 1 Kings 4:6
    Ahishar, over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda, over the labor force.
     
  • 1 Kings 5:13-14
    Then King Solomon raised up a labor force out of all Israel; and the labor force was thirty thousand men. And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month in shifts: they were one month in Lebanon and two months at home; Adoniram was in charge of the labor force.
     
  • 1 Kings 5:16
    besides three thousand three hundred from the chiefs of Solomon’s deputies, who supervised the people who labored in the work.
     
  • 1 Kings 9:15
    And this is the reason for the labor force which King Solomon raised: to build the house of the LORD, his own house, the Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
     
  • 1 Kings 9:17
    And Solomon built Gezer, Lower Beth Horon,
     
  • 1 Kings 9:20-23
    All the people who were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel— that is, their descendants who were left in the land after them, whom the children of Israel had not been able to destroy completely—from these Solomon raised forced labor, as it is to this day. But of the children of Israel Solomon made no forced laborers, because they were men of war and his servants: his officers, his captains, commanders of his chariots, and his cavalry. Others were chiefs of the officials who were over Solomon’s work: five hundred and fifty, who ruled over the people who did the work.
     
  • 1 Kings 11:28
    The man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor; and Solomon, seeing that the young man was industrious, made him the officer over all the labor force of the house of Joseph.
     
  • 1 Kings 12:4
    “Your father made our yoke heavy; now therefore, lighten the burdensome service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, and we will serve you.”
     
  • 1 Kings 12:15
    So the king did not listen to the people; for the turn of events was from the LORD, that He might fulfill His word, which the LORD had spoken by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
     
  • 1 Kings 12:18
    Then King Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was in charge of the revenue; but all Israel stoned him with stones, and he died. Therefore King Rehoboam mounted his chariot in haste to flee to Jerusalem.
     
  • 2 Kings 22:5
    And let them deliver it into the hand of those doing the work, who are the overseers in the house of the LORD; let them give it to those who are in the house of the LORD doing the work, to repair the damages of the house—
     
  • 1 Chronicles 20:3
    And he brought out the people who were in it, and put them to work with saws, with iron picks, and with axes. So David did to all the cities of the people of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
     
  • 1 Chronicles 27:25
    And Azmaveth the son of Adiel was over the king’s treasuries; and Jehonathan the son of Uzziah was over the storehouses in the field, in the cities, in the villages, and in the fortresses.
     
  • 2 Chronicles 8:7-10
    All the people who were left of the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who were not of Israel— that is, their descendants who were left in the land after them, whom the children of Israel did not destroy—from these Solomon raised forced labor, as it is to this day. But Solomon did not make the children of Israel servants for his work. Some were men of war, captains of his officers, captains of his chariots, and his cavalry. And others were chiefs of the officials of King Solomon: two hundred and fifty, who ruled over the people.
     
  • 2 Chronicles 10:4
    “Your father made our yoke heavy; now therefore, lighten the burdensome service of your father and his heavy yoke which he put on us, and we will serve you.”
     
  • 2 Chronicles 10:18
    Then King Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was in charge of revenue; but the children of Israel stoned him with stones, and he died. Therefore King Rehoboam mounted his chariot in haste to flee to Jerusalem.
     
  • 2 Chronicles 24:13
    So the workmen labored, and the work was completed by them; they restored the house of God to its original condition and reinforced it.
     
  • 2 Chronicles 34:13
    were over the burden bearers and were overseers of all who did work in any kind of service. And some of the Levites were scribes, officers, and gatekeepers.
     
  • Nehemiah 3:5
    Next to them the Tekoites made repairs; but their nobles did not put their shoulders to the work of their Lord.
     
  • Nehemiah 4:10
    Then Judah said, “The strength of the laborers is failing, and there is so much rubbish that we are not able to build the wall.”
     
  • Nehemiah 4:17
    Those who built on the wall, and those who carried burdens, loaded themselves so that with one hand they worked at construction, and with the other held a weapon.
     
  • Nehemiah 4:21-22
    So we labored in the work, and half of the men held the spears from daybreak until the stars appeared. At the same time I also said to the people, “Let each man and his servant stay at night in Jerusalem, that they may be our guard by night and a working party by day.”
     
  • Nehemiah 5:13
    Then I shook out the fold of my garment and said, "So may God shake out each man from his house, and from his property, who does not perform this promise. Even thus may he be shaken out and emptied." And all the assembly said, "Amen!" and praised the LORD. Then the people did according to this promise.
     
  • Esther 10:1
    And King Ahasuerus imposed tribute on the land and on the islands of the sea.
     
  • Job 7:1-2
    “Is there not a time of hard service for man on earth?
    Are not his days also like the days of a hired man? Like a servant who earnestly desires the shade,
    And like a hired man who eagerly looks for his wages,
     
  • Job 9:29
    If I am condemned,
    Why then do I labor in vain?
     
  • Job 10:3
    Does it seem good to You that You should oppress,
    That You should despise the work of Your hands,
    And smile on the counsel of the wicked?
     
  • Job 14:6
    Look away from him that he may rest,
    Till like a hired man he finishes his day.
     
  • Job 15:20
    The wicked man writhes with pain all his days,
    And the number of years is hidden from the oppressor.
     
  • Job 20:18
    He will restore that for which he labored,
    And will not swallow it down;
    From the proceeds of business
    He will get no enjoyment.
     
  • Job 24:5
    Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert,
    They go out to their work, searching for food.
    The wilderness yields food for them and for their children.
     
  • Job 37:7
    He seals the hand of every man,
    That all men may know His work.
     
  • Job 39:3
    They bow down,
    They bring forth their young,
    They deliver their offspring.
     
  • Job 39:9
    “Will the wild ox be willing to serve you?
    Will he bed by your manger?
     
  • Job 39:11
    Will you trust him because his strength is great?
    Or will you leave your labor to him?
     
  • Job 39:16
    She treats her young harshly, as though they were not hers;
    Her labor is in vain, without concern,
     
  • Psalm 7:14
    Behold, the wicked brings forth iniquity;
    Yes, he conceives trouble and brings forth falsehood.

     
  • Psalm 48:6
    Fear took hold of them there,
    And pain, as of a woman in birth pangs,

     
  • Psalm 78:46
    He also gave their crops to the caterpillar,
    And their labor to the locust.

     
  • Psalm 90:10
    The days of our lives are seventy years;
    And if by reason of strength they are eighty years,
    Yet their boast is only labor and sorrow;
    For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

     
  • Psalm 104:14
    He causes the grass to grow for the cattle,
    And vegetation for the service of man,
    That he may bring forth food from the earth,

     
  • Psalm 104:23
    Man goes out to his work
    And to his labor until the evening.
     
  • Psalm 105:44
    He gave them the lands of the Gentiles,
    And they inherited the labor of the nations,

     
  • Psalm 107:12
    Therefore He brought down their heart with labor;
    They fell down, and there was none to help.

     
  • Psalm 109:11
    Let the creditor seize all that he has,
    And let strangers plunder his labor.

     
  • Psalm 127:1-2
    Unless the LORD builds the house,
    They labor in vain who build it;
    Unless the LORD guards the city,
    The watchman stays awake in vain.
    It is vain for you to rise up early,
    To sit up late,
    To eat the bread of sorrows;
    For so He gives His beloved sleep.
     
  • Psalm 128:2
    When you eat the labor of your hands,
    You shall be happy, and it shall be well with you.

     
  • Proverbs 3:9
    Honor the LORD with your possessions,
    And with the firstfruits of all your increase;

     
  • Proverbs 5:10
    Lest aliens be filled with your wealth,
    And your labors go to the house of a foreigner;

     
  • Proverbs 10:16
    The labor of the righteous leads to life,
    The wages of the wicked to sin.

     
  • Proverbs 12:24
    The hand of the diligent will rule,
    But the lazy man will be put to forced labor.

     
  • Proverbs 13:11
    Wealth gained by dishonesty will be diminished,
    But he who gathers by labor will increase.

     
  • Proverbs 14:23
    In all labor there is profit,
    But idle chatterleads only to poverty.

     
  • Proverbs 16:26
    The person who labors, labors for himself,
    For his hungry mouth drives him on.

     
  • Proverbs 21:25
    The desire of the lazy man kills him,
    For his hands refuse to labor.

     
  • Ecclesiastes 1:3
    What profit has a man from all his labor
    In which he toils under the sun?

     
  • Ecclesiastes 1:8
    All things are full of labor;
    Man cannot express it.
    The eye is not satisfied with seeing,
    Nor the ear filled with hearing.

     
  • Ecclesiastes 5:12
    The sleep of a laboring man is sweet,
    Whether he eats little or much;
    But the abundance of the rich will not permit him to sleep.

     
  • Ecclesiastes 5:15
    As he came from his mother's womb, naked shall he return,
    To go as he came;
    And he shall take nothing from his labor
    Which he may carry away in his hand.

     
  • Ecclesiastes 5:18-19
    Here is what I have seen: It is good and fitting for one to eat and drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labor in which he toils under the sun all the days of his life which God gives him; for it is his heritage. As for every man to whom God has given riches and wealth, and given him power to eat of it, to receive his heritage and rejoice in his labor—this is the gift of God.
     
  • Ecclesiastes 6:7
    All the labor of man is for his mouth,
    And yet the soul is not satisfied.

     
  • Ecclesiastes 8:16-17
    When I applied my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that is done on earth, even though one sees no sleep day or night, then I saw all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. For though a man labors to discover it, yet he will not find it; moreover, though a wise man attempts to know it, he will not be able to find it.
     
  • Ecclesiastes 10:15
    The labor of fools wearies them,
    For they do not even know how to go to the city!

     
  • Song of Solomon 8:5
    Who is this coming up from the wilderness,
    Leaning upon her beloved?
    I awakened you under the apple tree.
    There your mother brought you forth;
    There she who bore you brought you forth.
     
  • Isaiah 13:8
    And they will be afraid.
    Pangs and sorrows will take hold of them;
    They will be in pain as a woman in childbirth;
    They will be amazed at one another;
    Their faces will be like flames.

     
  • Isaiah 19:10
    And its foundations will be broken.
    All who make wages will be troubled of soul.

     
  • Isaiah 21:3
    Therefore my loins are filled with pain;
    Pangs have taken hold of me, like the pangs of a woman in labor.
    I was distressed when I heard it;
    I was dismayed when I saw it.

     
  • Isaiah 22:4
    Therefore I said, “Look away from me,
    I will weep bitterly;
    Do not labor to comfort me
    Because of the plundering of the daughter of my people.”

     
  • Isaiah 23:4
    Be ashamed, O Sidon;
    For the sea has spoken,
    The strength of the sea, saying,
    “ I do not labor, nor bring forth children;
    Neither do I rear young men,
    Nor bring up virgins.”

     
  • Isaiah 26:17-18
    As a woman with child
    Is in pain and cries out in her pangs,
    When she draws near the time of her delivery,
    So have we been in Your sight, O LORD.
    We have been with child, we have been in pain;
    We have, as it were, brought forth wind;
    We have not accomplished any deliverance in the earth,
    Nor have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

     
  • Isaiah 31:8
    “ Then Assyria shall fall by a sword not of man,
    And a sword not of mankind shall devour him.
    But he shall flee from the sword,
    And his young men shall become forced labor.

     
  • Isaiah 42:14
    “ I have held My peace a long time,
    I have been still and restrained Myself.
    Now I will cry like a woman in labor,
    I will pant and gasp at once.

     
  • Isaiah 45:10
    Woe to him who says to his father, ‘What are you begetting?’
    Or to the woman, ‘What have you brought forth?’”

     
  • Isaiah 45:14
    Thus says the LORD:
    ' The labor of Egypt and merchandise of Cush
    And of the Sabeans, men of stature,
    Shall come over to you, and they shall be yours;
    They shall walk behind you,
    They shall come over in chains;
    And they shall bow down to you.
    They will make supplication to you, saying, 'Surely God is in you,
    And there is no other;
    There isno other God."

     
  • Isaiah 47:12
    “ Stand now with your enchantments
    And the multitude of your sorceries,
    In which you have labored from your youth—
    Perhaps you will be able to profit,
    Perhaps you will prevail.

     
  • Isaiah 47:15
    Thus shall they be to you
    With whom you have labored,
    Your merchants from your youth;
    They shall wander each one to his quarter.
    No one shall save you.

     
  • Isaiah 49:4
    Then I said, ‘I have labored in vain,
    I have spent my strength for nothing and in vain;
    Yet surely my just reward is with the LORD,
    And my work with my God.’”

     
  • Isaiah 53:11
    He shall see the labor of His soul,and be satisfied.
    By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many,
    For He shall bear their iniquities.

     
  • Isaiah 54:1
    “Sing, O barren,
    You who have not borne!
    Break forth into singing, and cry aloud,
    You who have not labored with child!
    For more are the children of the desolate
    Than the children of the married woman,” says the LORD.

     
  • Isaiah 55:2
    Why do you spend money for what is not bread,
    And your wages for what does not satisfy?
    Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good,
    And let your soul delight itself in abundance.

     
  • Isaiah 58:3
    'Why have we fasted,' they say, 'and You have not seen?
    Why have we afflicted our souls, and You take no notice?'
    "In fact, in the day of your fast you find pleasure,
    And exploit all your laborers.

     
  • Isaiah 62:8
    The LORD has sworn by His right hand
    And by the arm of His strength:
    “ Surely I will no longer give your grain
    As food for your enemies;
    And the sons of the foreigner shall not drink your new wine,
    For which you have labored.

     
  • Isaiah 65:23
    They shall not labor in vain,
    Nor bring forth children for trouble;
    For they shall be the descendants of the blessed of the LORD,
    And their offspring with them.

     
  • Isaiah 66:7-8
    'Before she was in labor, she gave birth;
    Before her pain came,
    She delivered a male child.
    Who has heard such a thing?
    Who has seen such things?
    Shall the earth be made to give birth in one day?
    Or shall a nation be born at once?
    For as soon as Zion was in labor,
    She gave birth to her children.

     
  • Jeremiah 3:24
    For shame has devoured
    The labor of our fathers from our youth—
    Their flocks and their herds,
    Their sons and their daughters.

     
  • Jeremiah 4:31
    “ For I have heard a voice as of a woman in labor,
    The anguish as of her who brings forth her first child,
    The voice of the daughter of Zion bewailing herself;
    She spreads her hands, saying,
    ‘ Woe is me now, for my soul is weary
    Because of murderers!’

     
  • Jeremiah 6:24
    We have heard the report of it;
    Our hands grow feeble.
    Anguish has taken hold of us,
    Pain as of a woman in labor.

     
  • Jeremiah 13:21
    What will you say when He punishes you?
    For you have taught them
    To be chieftains, to be head over you.
    Will not pangs seize you,
    Like a woman in labor?

     
  • Jeremiah 15:9
    “ She languishes who has borne seven;
    She has breathed her last;
    Her sun has gone down
    While it was yet day;
    She has been ashamed and confounded.
    And the remnant of them I will deliver to the sword
    Before their enemies,” says the LORD.
     
  • Jeremiah 20:5
    Moreover I will deliver all the wealth of this city, all its produce, and all its precious things; all the treasures of the kings of Judah I will give into the hand of their enemies, who will plunder them, seize them, and carry them to Babylon.
     
  • Jeremiah 20:18
    Why did I come forth from the womb to see labor and sorrow,
    That my days should be consumed with shame?
     
  • Jeremiah 22:13
    “ Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness
    And his chambers by injustice,
    Whouses his neighbor’s service without wages
    And gives him nothing for his work,

     
  • Jeremiah 22:23
    O inhabitant of Lebanon,
    Making your nest in the cedars,
    How gracious will you be when pangs come upon you,
    Like the pain of a woman in labor?
     
  • Jeremiah 30:6
    Ask now, and see,
    Whether a man is ever in labor with child?
    So why do I see every man with his hands on his loins
    Like a woman in labor,
    And all faces turned pale?

     
  • Jeremiah 31:8
    Behold, I will bring them from the north country,
    And gather them from the ends of the earth,
    Among them the blind and the lame,
    The woman with child
    And the one who labors with child, together;
    A great throng shall return there.

     
  • Jeremiah 48:41
    Kerioth is taken,
    And the strongholds are surprised;
    The mighty men’s hearts in Moab on that day shall be
    Like the heart of a woman in birth pangs.

     
  • Jeremiah 49:22
    Behold, He shall come up and fly like the eagle,
    And spread His wings over Bozrah;
    The heart of the mighty men of Edom in that day shall be
    Like the heart of a woman in birth pangs.
     
  • Jeremiah 49:24
    Damascus has grown feeble;
    She turns to flee,
    And fear has seized her.
    Anguish and sorrows have taken her like a woman in labor.

     
  • Jeremiah 50:43
    “ The king of Babylon has heard the report about them,
    And his hands grow feeble;
    Anguish has taken hold of him,
    Pangs as of a woman in childbirth.

     
  • Jeremiah 51:58
    Thus says the LORD of hosts:
    “ The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken,
    And her high gates shall be burned with fire;
    The people will labor in vain,
    And the nations, because of the fire;
    And they shall be weary.”
     
  • Lamentations 1:1
    How lonely sits the city
    That was full of people!
    Howlike a widow is she,
    Who was great among the nations!
    The princess among the provinces
    Has become a slave!

     
  • Lamentations 1:3
    Judah has gone into captivity,
    Under affliction and hard servitude;
    She dwells among the nations,
    She finds no rest;
    All her persecutors overtake her in dire straits.

     
  • Lamentations 5:5
    They pursue at our heels;
    We labor and have no rest.

     
  • Ezekiel 23:29
    They will deal hatefully with you, take away all you have worked for, and leave you naked and bare. The nakedness of your harlotry shall be uncovered, both your lewdness and your harlotry.
     
  • Ezekiel 29:18
    “Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to labor strenuously against Tyre; every head was made bald, and every shoulder rubbed raw; yet neither he nor his army received wages from Tyre, for the labor which they expended on it.
     
  • Ezekiel 29:20
    I have given him the land of Egypt for his labor, because they worked for Me,’ says the Lord GOD.
     
  • Ezekiel 48:18-19
    The rest of the length, alongside the district of the holy section, shall be ten thousand cubits to the east and ten thousand to the west. It shall be adjacent to the district of the holy section, and its produce shall be food for the workers of the city. The workers of the city, from all the tribes of Israel, shall cultivate it.
     
  • Daniel 6:14
    And the king, when he heard these words, was greatly displeased with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him; and he labored till the going down of the sun to deliver him.
     
  • Hosea 12:8
    And Ephraim said,
    ‘ Surely I have become rich,
    I have found wealth for myself;
    In all my labors
    They shall find in me no iniquity that is sin.’

     
  • Jonah 4:10
    But the LORD said, “You have had pity on the plant for which you have not labored, nor made it grow, which came up in a night and perished in a night.
     
  • Micah 4:9-10
    Now why do you cry aloud?
    Is thereno king in your midst?
    Has your counselor perished?
    For pangs have seized you like a woman in labor.
    Be in pain, and labor to bring forth,
    O daughter of Zion,
    Like a woman in birth pangs.
    For now you shall go forth from the city,
    You shall dwell in the field,
    And to Babylon you shall go.
    There you shall be delivered;
    There the LORD will redeem you
    From the hand of your enemies.

     
  • Micah 5:3
    Therefore He shall give them up,
    Until the time that she who is in labor has given birth;
    Then the remnant of His brethren
    Shall return to the children of Israel.

     
  • Habakkuk 2:13
    Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts
    That the peoples labor to feed the fire,
    And nations weary themselves in vain?

     
  • Habakkuk 3:17
    Though the fig tree may not blossom,
    Nor fruit be on the vines;
    Though the labor of the olive may fail,
    And the fields yield no food;
    Though the flock may be cut off from the fold,
    And there be no herd in the stalls—

     
  • Haggai 1:11
    For I called for a drought on the land and the mountains, on the grain and the new wine and the oil, on whatever the ground brings forth, on men and livestock, and on all the labor of your hands.”
     
  • Haggai 1:14
    So the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the house of the LORD of hosts, their God,
     
  • Malachi 3:5
    And I will come near you for judgment;
    I will be a swift witness
    Against sorcerers,
    Against adulterers,
    Against perjurers,
    Against those who exploit wage earners and widows and orphans,
    And against those who turn away an alien'
    Because they do not fear Me,'
    Says the LORD of hosts.

     
  • Matthew 6:28
    “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin;
     
  • Matthew 9:37-38
    Then He said to His disciples, 'The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.”
     
  • Matthew 10:10
    nor bag for your journey, nor two tunics, nor sandals, nor staffs; for a worker is worthy of his food.
     
  • Matthew 11:28
    Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
     
  • Matthew 16:26-27
    For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? For the Son of Man will come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He will reward each according to his works.
     
  • Matthew 20:1-2
    “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. Now when he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
     
  • Matthew 20:8
    “So when evening had come, the owner of the vineyard said to his steward, ‘Call the laborers and give them their wages, beginning with the last to the first.’
     
  • Mark 6:48
    Then He saw them straining at rowing, for the wind was against them. Now about the fourth watch of the night He came to them, walking on the sea, and would have passed them by.
     
  • Mark 14:5
    For it might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor.” And they criticized her sharply.
     
  • Luke 5:5
    But Simon answered and said to Him, “Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing; nevertheless at Your word I will let down the net.”
     
  • Luke 10:2
    Then He said to them, "The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few; therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.
     
  • Luke 10:7
    And remain in the same house, eating and drinking such things as they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Do not go from house to house.
     
  • Luke 12:27
    Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
     
  • John 4:38
    I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their labors.”
     
  • John 6:27
    Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him.'
     
  • John 16:21
    A woman, when she is in labor, has sorrow because her hour has come; but as soon as she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.
     
  • Acts 20:35
    I have shown you in every way, by laboring like this, that you must support the weak. And remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
     
  • Acts 27:18
    And because we were exceedingly tempest-tossed, the next day they lightened the ship.
     
  • Romans 1:13
    Now I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that I often planned to come to you (but was hindered until now), that I might have some fruit among you also, just as among the other Gentiles.
     
  • Romans 4:4
    Now to him who works, the wages are not counted as grace but as debt.
     
  • Romans 8:22
    For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now.
     
  • Romans 16:6
    Greet Mary, who labored much for us.
     
  • Romans 16:12
    Greet Tryphena and Tryphosa, who have labored in the Lord. Greet the beloved Persis, who labored much in the Lord.
     
  • 1 Corinthians 3:8-10
    Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor. For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, you are God's building. According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it.
     
  • 1 Corinthians 4:12
    And we labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;
     
  • 1 Corinthians 9:6
    Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working?
     
  • 1 Corinthians 9:13
    Do you not know that those who minister the holy things eat of the things of the temple, and those who serve at the altar partake of the offerings of the altar?
     
  • 1 Corinthians 15:10
    But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
     
  • 1 Corinthians 15:58
    Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
     
  • 1 Corinthians 16:10
    And if Timothy comes, see that he may be with you without fear; for he does the work of the Lord, as I also do.
     
  • 1 Corinthians 16:16
    that you also submit to such, and to everyone who works and labors with us.
     
  • 1 Corinthians 16:18
    For they refreshed my spirit and yours. Therefore acknowledge such men.
     
  • 2 Corinthians 1:11
    you also helping together in prayer for us, that thanks may be given by many persons on our behalf for the gift granted to us through many.
     
  • 2 Corinthians 1:24
    Not that we have dominion over your faith, but are fellow workers for your joy; for by faith you stand.
     
  • 2 Corinthians 5:9
    Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him.
     
  • 2 Corinthians 6:5
    in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in fastings;
     
  • 2 Corinthians 10:15
    not boasting of things beyond measure, that is, in other men's labors, but having hope, that as your faith is increased, we shall be greatly enlarged by you in our sphere,
     
  • 2 Corinthians 11:23
    Are they ministers of Christ?—I speak as a fool—I am more: in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often.
     
  • 2 Corinthians 11:27
    in weariness and toil, in sleeplessness often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness—
     
  • Galatians 4:11
    I am afraid for you, lest I have labored for you in vain.
     
  • Galatians 4:19
    My little children, for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you,
     
  • Galatians 4:27
    For it is written:
    ' Rejoice, O barren,
    You who do not bear!
    Break forth and shout,
    You who are not in labor!
    For the desolate has many more children
    Than she who has a husband.'
     
  • Ephesians 2:10
    For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
     
  • Ephesians 4:28
    Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give him who has need.
     
  • Philippians 1:22
    But if I live on in the flesh, this will mean fruit from my labor; yet what I shall choose I cannot tell.
     
  • Philippians 2:16
    holding fast the word of life, so that I may rejoice in the day of Christ that I have not run in vain or labored in vain.
     
  • Philippians 2:25
    Yet I considered it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, and fellow soldier, but your messenger and the one who ministered to my need;
     
  • Philippians 4:3
    And I urge you also, true companion, help these women who labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the Book of Life.
     
  • Colossians 1:29
    To this end I also labor, striving according to His working which works in me mightily.
     
  • Colossians 4:12-13
    Epaphras, who is one of you, a bondservant of Christ, greets you, always laboring fervently for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. For I bear him witness that he has a great zeal for you, and those who are in Laodicea, and those in Hierapolis.
     
  • 1 Thessalonians 1:3
    remembering without ceasing your work of faith, labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of our God and Father,
     
  • 1 Thessalonians 2:9
    For you remember, brethren, our labor and toil; for laboring night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.
     
  • 1 Thessalonians 3:2
    and sent Timothy, our brother and minister of God, and our fellow laborer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you and encourage you concerning your faith,
     
  • 1 Thessalonians 3:5
    For this reason, when I could no longer endure it, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor might be in vain.
     
  • 1 Thessalonians 5:3
    For when they say, "Peace and safety!" then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape.
     
  • 1 Thessalonians 5:12
    And we urge you, brethren, to recognize those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord and admonish you,
     
  • 2 Thessalonians 3:8
    nor did we eat anyone's bread free of charge, but worked with labor and toil night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you,
     
  • 2 Thessalonians 3:10
    For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat.
     
  • 1 Timothy 4:10
    For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.
     
  • 1 Timothy 5:17-18
    Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and doctrine. For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain,” and, “The laborer is worthy of his wages.”
     
  • 2 Timothy 2:6
    The hardworking farmer must be first to partake of the crops.
     
  • Titus 3:14
    And let our people also learn to maintain good works, to meet urgent needs, that they may not be unfruitful.
     
  • Philemon 1:1
    Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother,To Philemon our beloved friend and fellow laborer,
     
  • Philemon 1:24
    as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, Luke, my fellow laborers.
     
  • Hebrews 4:10
    For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His.
     
  • 2 John 1:8
    Look to yourselves, that we do not lose those things we worked for, but that we may receive a full reward.
     
  • Revelation 2:2
    "I know your works, your labor, your patience, and that you cannot bear those who are evil. And you have tested those who say they are apostles and are not, and have found them liars;
     
  • Revelation 12:2
    Then being with child, she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth.
     
  • Revelation 14:13
    Then I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, "Write: 'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.'" "Yes," says the Spirit, "that they may rest from their labors, and their works follow them."
     


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