Bible Verses About Toil
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for toil, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 490 votes, led by Psalms 127:2. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Toil
Psalms 127:234 votes
It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
Ecclesiastes 3:1325 votes
And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.
Psalms 127:1-224 votes
Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
Ecclesiastes 3:12-1324 votes
I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.
Ecclesiastes 4:424 votes
Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
Proverbs 14:2321 votes
In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
Proverbs 10:2219 votes
The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.
Proverbs 23:419 votes
Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
Ecclesiastes 4:1-1619 votes
So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Ecclesiastes 4:919 votes
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
Ecclesiastes 5:1519 votes
As he came forth of his mother’s womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.
Ecclesiastes 5:1819 votes
Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion.
Ecclesiastes 5:1919 votes
Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.
Proverbs 23:1-25:2816 votes
When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:
Proverbs 23:516 votes
Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
Genesis 3:17-1915 votes
And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
John 1:1812 votes
No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
Genesis 3:1911 votes
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Proverbs 10:1-22:2911 votes
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Proverbs 14:1-23:3511 votes
Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.
Proverbs 23:1-24:3411 votes
When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:
Ecclesiastes 4:1-9:1811 votes
So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
John 14:611 votes
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Genesis 3:1710 votes
And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
Proverbs 10:210 votes
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
What does the Bible say about toil?
Readers most often cite Psalms 127:2 on the subject of toil. Across 490 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ecclesiastes 3:13, Psalms 127:1-2, Ecclesiastes 3:12-13. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.