A Man Working
1 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 42 helpful votes
Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 ESV / 32 helpful votes
And to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you, so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one.
Proverbs 10:4-5 ESV / 21 helpful votes
A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich. He who gathers in summer is a prudent son, but he who sleeps in harvest is a son who brings shame.
Proverbs 30:5-6 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him. Do not add to his words, lest he rebuke you and you be found a liar.
2 Peter 1:21 ESV / 19 helpful votes
For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
2 Kings 2:23-24 ESV / 18 helpful votes
He went up from there to Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!” And he turned around, and when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of the Lord. And two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys.
1 John 5:19 ESV / 17 helpful votes
We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 14 helpful votes
But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
Proverbs 12:27 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Whoever is slothful will not roast his game, but the diligent man will get precious wealth.
Luke 4:4 ESV / 13 helpful votes
And Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone.’”
Exodus 20:8-11 ESV / 13 helpful votes
“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
Proverbs 22:29 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Do you see a man skillful in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men.
Matthew 5:18 ESV / 11 helpful votes
For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.
Hebrews 4:6-9 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience, again he appoints a certain day, “Today,” saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.” For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken of another day later on. So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God,
2 Timothy 2:16-21 ESV / 10 helpful votes
But avoid irreverent babble, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness, and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus, who have swerved from the truth, saying that the resurrection has already happened. They are upsetting the faith of some. But God’s firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let everyone who names the name of the Lord depart from iniquity.” Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and clay, some for honorable use, some for dishonorable. …
Acts 20:28 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.
Proverbs 12:24 ESV / 10 helpful votes
The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor.
Genesis 1:1 ESV / 10 helpful votes
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
Matthew 13:10-13 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Then the disciples came and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?” And he answered them, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given. For to the one who has, more will be given, and he will have an abundance, but from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. This is why I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.
Numbers 16:28 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And Moses said, “Hereby you shall know that the Lord has sent me to do all these works, and that it has not been of my own accord.
Exodus 23:10-12 ESV / 8 helpful votes
“For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield, but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the beasts of the field may eat. You shall do likewise with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard. “Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant woman, and the alien, may be refreshed.
Revelation 22:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes
I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book,
1 Peter 1:23 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;
1 Corinthians 3:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
John 20:17 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”
John 1:29 ESV / 7 helpful votes
The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
John 1:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Luke 9:62 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”
Proverbs 21:5-8 ESV / 7 helpful votes
The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty. The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death. The violence of the wicked will sweep them away, because they refuse to do what is just. The way of the guilty is crooked, but the conduct of the pure is upright.
Proverbs 13:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes
The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.
Psalm 138:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes
I bow down toward your holy temple and give thanks to your name for your steadfast love and your faithfulness, for you have exalted above all things your name and your word.
Exodus 16:11-30 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And the Lord said to Moses, “I have heard the grumbling of the people of Israel. Say to them, ‘At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. Then you shall know that I am the Lord your God.’” In the evening quail came up and covered the camp, and in the morning dew lay around the camp. And when the dew had gone up, there was on the face of the wilderness a fine, flake-like thing, fine as frost on the ground. When the people of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, “It is the bread that the Lord has given you to eat. …
Romans 8:29 ESV / 6 helpful votes
For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
Romans 3:24 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
Romans 1:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
Acts 13:39 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And by him everyone who believes is freed from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.
Mark 4:21 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And he said to them, “Is a lamp brought in to be put under a basket, or under a bed, and not on a stand?
Genesis 2:15 ESV / 6 helpful votes
The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.
Matthew 8:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”
Proverbs 18:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Whoever is slack in his work is a brother to him who destroys.
Revelation 22:18-19 ESV / 4 helpful votes
I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book, and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.
1 Peter 4:1-9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God. For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry. With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you; but they will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead. …
Hebrews 13:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes
For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the holy places by the high priest as a sacrifice for sin are burned outside the camp.
Romans 3:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.
Romans 1:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes
For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
Acts 17:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,
John 10:34 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’?
Luke 1:41 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit,
Matthew 9:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And behold, some of the scribes said to themselves, “This man is blaspheming.”
Jeremiah 26:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
“Thus says the Lord: Stand in the court of the Lord’s house, and speak to all the cities of Judah that come to worship in the house of the Lord all the words that I command you to speak to them; do not hold back a word.
Jeremiah 1:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Then the Lord put out his hand and touched my mouth. And the Lord said to me, “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.
Isaiah 1:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
“Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.
