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Genesis 3:19
You will eat bread by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground, since you were taken from it. For you are dust, and you will return to dust.”
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2 Thessalonians 3 8-2 Thessalonians 3 12
we did not eat anyone’s food free of charge; instead, we labored and toiled, working night and day, so that we would not be a burden to any of you.It is not that we don’t have the right to support, but we did it to make ourselves an example to you so that you would imitate us.In fact, when we were with you, this is what we commanded you:“ If anyone isn’t willing to work, he should not eat.”For we hear that there are some among you who are idle. They are not busy but busybodies.Now we command and exhort such people by the Lord Jesus Christ to work quietly and provide for themselves.
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Ephesians 4:28
Let the thief no longer steal. Instead, he is to do honest work with his own hands, so that he has something to share with anyone in need.
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Judges 19:16
In the evening, an old man came in from his work in the field. He was from the hill country of Ephraim, but he was residing in Gibeah where the people were Benjaminites.
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Ecclesiastes 5:12
The sleep of the worker is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of the rich permits him no sleep.