• Ecclesiastes 1:3
  What profit has a man from all his labor
  In which he toils under the sun?
  
   
• Ecclesiastes 2:24
  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.
   
• Ecclesiastes 3:9
  What profit has the worker from that in which he labors?
   
• Genesis 26:12-14
  Then Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year a hundredfold; and the LORD blessed him. The man began to prosper, and continued prospering until he became very prosperous; for he had possessions of flocks and possessions of herds and a great number of servants. So the Philistines envied him.
   

Related Scriptures

• 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."
   
• John 5:17
  But Jesus answered them, "My Father has been working until now, and I have been working."
   
• Genesis 13:2
  Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.
   
• 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 2:11
  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 9:10
  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.
   
• 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.’”