Quotes about Work
God to have founded the earth by wisdom is hardly obvious, but we don't need to try to work it all out. It's enough to observe that wisdom and creation are inseparable—without wisdom, there is no creation.
— Peter Enns
And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work.
— Genesis 2:2
Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on that day He rested from all the work of creation that He had accomplished.
— Genesis 2:3
And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
— Genesis 3:17
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
Therefore the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.
— Genesis 3:23
Laban said to him, “Just because you are my relative, should you work for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”
— Genesis 29:15
Jacob slept with Rachel as well, and indeed, he loved Rachel more than Leah. So he worked for Laban another seven years.
— Genesis 29:30
Give me my wives and children for whom I have served you, that I may go on my way. You know how hard I have worked for you.”
— Genesis 30:26
Then Jacob answered, “You know how I have served you and how your livestock have thrived under my care.
— Genesis 30:29
You know that I have served your father with all my strength.
— Genesis 31:6
One day, however, Joseph went into the house to attend to his work, and not a single household servant was inside.
— Genesis 39:11