Genesis 3:19 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.
Judges 19:16 And, behold, there came an old man from
his work out of the field at even, which [
was] also of mount Ephraim; and he sojourned in Gibeah: but the men of the place [
were] Benjamites.
Ecclesiastes 5:12 The sleep of a labouring man [
is] sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
Ephesians 4:28 Let
him that stole
steal no more: but rather let him
labour, working with [
his] hands the thing which is good,
that he may have to
give to him that needeth.
2 Thessalonians 3:8-
12 Neither did we
eat any man's bread for nought;
but wrought with labour and travail
night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you: ... Now them that are such
we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ,
that with quietness they work, and
eat their own bread.
