What the Bible says about

Labor

21 references · Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · tap any verse for study tools

“By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground— because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.””
Genesis 3:19 BSB
“Six days you shall labor and do all your work,”
Exodus 20:9-11 BSB
“For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you must cease, so that your ox and your donkey may rest and the son of your maidservant may be refreshed, as well as the foreign resident.”
Exodus 23:12 BSB
“Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in the seasons of plowing and harvesting, you must rest.”
Exodus 34:21 BSB
“You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.”
Leviticus 19:13 BSB
“Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.”
Deuteronomy 24:14 BSB
“You are to pay his wages each day before sunset, because he is poor and depends on them. Otherwise he may cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.”
Deuteronomy 24:15 BSB
“Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.”
Deuteronomy 25:4 BSB
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