Quotes About Labor

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

So they went. He went out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour and did the same thing.

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

When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ëCall the workers and pay them their wages, starting with the last ones hired and moving on to the first.í

The workers who were hired about the eleventh hour came and each received a denarius.

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

On receiving their pay, they began to grumble against the landowner.

ëThese men who were hired last worked only one hour,í they said, ëand you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden and the scorching heat of the day.í

But he answered one of them, ëFriend, I am not being unfair to you. Did you not agree with me on one denarius?

Take your pay and go. I want to give this last man the same as I gave you.

And He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into His harvest.

Which of you whose servant comes in from plowing or shepherding in the field will say to him, ëCome at once and sit down to eatí?

I sent you to reap what you have not worked for; others have done the hard work, and now you have taken up their labor.”

You yourselves know that these hands of mine have ministered to my own needs and those of my companions.

Now the wages of the worker are not credited as a gift, but as an obligation.

He who plants and he who waters are one in purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor.

Or are Barnabas and I the only apostles who must work for a living?

Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not drink of its milk?

For it is written in the Law of Moses: “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” Is it about oxen that God is concerned?

Isnít He actually speaking on our behalf? Indeed, this was written for us, because when the plowman plows and the thresher threshes, they should also expect to share in the harvest.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and immovable. Always excel in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

to submit to such as these, and to every fellow worker and laborer.

in labor and toil and often without sleep, in hunger and thirst and often without food, in cold and exposure.

He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing good with his own hands, that he may have something to share with the one in need.