Quotes About Work

He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard.

About the third hour he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing.

ëYou also go into my vineyard,í he said, ëand I will pay you whatever is right.í

About the eleventh hour he went out and found still others standing around. ëWhy have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?í he asked.

ëBecause no one has hired us,í they answered. So he told them, ëYou also go into my vineyard.í

So when the original workers came, they assumed they would receive more. But each of them also received a denarius.

But what do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first one and said, ëSon, go and work today in the vineyard.í

The servant who had received the five talents went at once and put them to work and gained five more.

Finally, the servant who had received the one talent came and said, ëMaster, I knew that you are a hard man, reaping where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed.

ëYou wicked, lazy servant!í replied his master. ëYou knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed.

Going on a little farther, He saw James son of Zebedee and his brother John. They were in a boat, mending their nets.

And they went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked through them, confirming His word by the signs that accompanied it.

He saw two boats at the edge of the lake. The fishermen had left them and were washing their nets.

Stay at the same house, eating and drinking whatever you are offered. For the worker is worthy of his wages. Do not move around from house to house.

But the synagogue leader was indignant that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath. “There are six days for work,” he told the crowd. “So come and be healed on those days and not on the Sabbath.”

Jesus explained, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.

But Jesus answered them, “To this very day My Father is at His work, and I too am working.”

Jesus replied, “The work of God is this: to believe in the One He has sent.”

While it is daytime, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work.

I have glorified You on earth by accomplishing the work You gave Me to do.

So if God gave them the same gift He gave us who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to hinder the work of God?”

ëLook, you scoffers, wonder and perish! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe, even if someone told you.í”

But Paul thought it best not to take him, because he had deserted them in Pamphylia and had not accompanied them in the work.

and he stayed and worked with them because they were tentmakers by trade, just as he was.