Haller's Concordance: LABOUR
- And to Adam he said: Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee, that thou shouldst not eat, cursed is the earth in thy work: with labour and toil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life. Gen. 3:17
- Unless the God of my father, Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had stood by me, peradventure now thou hadst sent me away naked: God beheld my affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesterday. Gen. 31:42
- By reason of her hard labour, she began to be in danger, and the midwife said to her: Fear not, for thou shalt have this son also. Gen. 35:17
- Moses told his kinsman all that the Lord had done to Pharao, and the Egyptians in favour of Israel: and all the labour which had befallen them in the journey, and that the Lord had delivered them. Ex. 18:8
- Thou art spent with foolish labour, both thou, and this people that is with thee; the business is above thy strength, thou alone canst not bear it. Ex. 18:18
- Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt do all thy works. Ex. 20:9
- Your labour shall be spent in vain: the ground shall not bring forth her increase: nor the trees yield their fruit. Lev. 26:20
- In the mean time Moses sent messengers from Cades to the king of Edom, to say: Thus saith thy brother Israel: Thou knowest all the labour that hath come upon us: Num. 20:14
- And they marched from mount Hor, by the way that leadeth to the Red Sea, to compass the land of Edom. And the people began to be weary of their journey and labour: Num. 21:4
- Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt do all thy works. Dt. 5:13
- But thou shalt pay him the price of his labour the same day, before the going down of the sun, because he is poor, and with it maintaineth his life: lest he cry against thee to the Lord, and it be reputed to thee for a sin. Dt. 24:15
- How he met thee: and slew the hindmost of the army, who sat down, being weary, when thou wast spent with hunger and labour, and he feared not God. Dt. 25:18
- And we cried to the Lord God of our fathers: who heard us, and looked down upon our affliction, and labour, and distress: Dt. 26:7
- While they were making merry, and refreshing their bodies with meat and drink, after the labour of the journey, the men of that city, sons of Belial (that is, without yoke), came and beset the old man's house, and began to knock at the door, calling to the master of the house, and saying: Bring forth the man that came into thy house, that we may abuse him: Judg. 19:22
- And his daughter in law, the wife of Phinees, was big with child, and near her time: and hearing the news that the ark of God was taken, and her father in law, and her husband, were dead, she bowed herself and fell in labour: for her pains came upon her on a sudden. 1 Ki. 4:19
- And the men, whom we mentioned above, rose up and took the captives, and with the spoils clothed all them that were naked: and when they had clothed and shod them, and refreshed them with meat and drink, and anointed them because of their labour, and had taken care of them, they set such of them as could not walk, and were feeble, upon beasts, and brought them to Jericho the city of palm trees to their brethren, and they returned to Samaria. 2 Par. 28:15
- After him built Nehemias the son of Azboc, lord of half the street of Bethsur, as far as over against the sepulchre of David, and to the pool, that was built with great labour, and to the house of the mighty. 2 Esd. 3:16
- Now therefore our God, great, strong, and terrible, who keepest covenant and mercy, turn not away from thy face all the labour which hath come upon us, upon our kings, and our princes, and our priests, and our prophets, and our fathers, and all the people from the days of the king of Assur, until this day. 2 Esd. 9:32
- Now Anna his wife went daily to weaving work, and she brought home what she could get for their living by the labour of her hands. Tob. 2:19
- And when the king of Egypt oppressed them, and made slaves of them to labour in clay and brick, in the building of his cities, they cried to their Lord, and he struck the whole land of Egypt with divers plagues. Jud. 5:10
- Man is born to labour, and the bird to fly. Job 5:7
- Behold he hath been in labour with injustice: he hath conceived sorrow, and brought forth iniquity. Ps. 7:14
- His mouth is full of cursing, and of bitterness, and of deceit: under his tongue are labour and sorrow. Ps. 10:7
- Thou seest it, for thou considerest labour and sorrow: that thou mayst deliver them into thy hands. To thee is the poor man left: thou wilt be a helper to the orphan. Ps. 10:14
- See my abjection and my labour; and forgive me all my sins. Ps. 25:18
- Trembling took hold of them. There were pains as of a woman in labour. Ps. 48:6
- Nor the price of the redemption of his soul: and shall labour for ever, Ps. 49:8
- Day and night shall iniquity surround it upon its walls: and in the midst thereof are labour, Ps. 55:10
- They are not in the labour of men: neither shall they be scourged like other men. Ps. 73:5
- I studied that I might know this thing, it is a labour in my sight: Ps. 73:16
- And he killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt: the firstfruits of all their labour in the tabernacles of Cham. Ps. 78:51
- The days of our years in them are threescore and ten years. But if in the strong they be fourscore years: and what is more of them is labour and sorrow. For mildness is come upon us: and we shall be corrected. Ps. 90:10
- Doth the seat of iniquity stick to thee, who framest labour in commandment? Ps. 94:20
- Man shall go forth to his work, and to his labour until the evening. Ps. 104:23
- And he slew all the firstborn in their land: the firstfruits of all their labour. Ps. 105:36
- ¤ Unless the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it. Unless the Lord keep the city, he watcheth in vain that keepeth it. Ps. 127:1
- The head of them compassing me about: the labour of their lips shall overwhelm them. Ps. 140:9
- Labour not to be rich: but set bounds to thy prudence. Pr. 23:4
- The eye that mocketh at his father, and that despiseth the labour of his mother in bearing him, let the ravens of the brooks pick it out, and the young eagles eat it. Pr. 30:17
- What hath a man more of all his labour, that he taketh under the sun? Eccl. 1:3
- And I have given my heart to know prudence, and learning, and errors, and folly: and I have perceived that in these also there was labour, and vexation of spirit, Eccl. 1:17
- Because in much wisdom there is much indignation: and he that addeth knowledge, addeth also labour. Eccl. 1:18
- And whatsoever my eyes desired, I refused them not: and I withheld not my heart from enjoying every pleasure, and delighting itself in the things which I had prepared: and esteemed this my portion, to make use of my own labour. Eccl. 2:10
- For what profit shall a man have of all his labour, and vexation of spirit, with which he hath been tormented under the sun? Eccl. 2:22
- What hath man more of his labour? Eccl. 3:9
- For every man that eateth and drinketh, and seeth good of his labour, this is the gift of God. Eccl. 3:13
- Better is a handful with rest, than both hands full with labour, and vexation of mind. Eccl. 4:6
- There is but one, and he hath not a second, no child, no brother, and yet he ceaseth not to labour, neither are his eyes satisfied with riches, neither doth he reflect, saying: For whom do I labour, and defraud my soul of good things? in this also is vanity, and a grievous vexation. Eccl. 4:8
- As he came forth naked from his mother's womb, so shall he return, and shall take nothing away with him of his labour. Eccl. 5:15
- This therefore hath seemed good to me, that a man should eat and drink, and enjoy the fruit of his labour, wherewith he hath laboured under the sun, all the days of his life, which God hath given him: and this is his portion. Eccl. 5:18
- And every man to whom God hath given riches, and substance, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to enjoy his portion, and to rejoice of his labour: this is the gift of God. Eccl. 5:19
- All the labour of man is for his mouth, but his soul shall not be filled. Eccl. 6:7
- Therefore I commended mirth, because there was no good for a man under the sun, but to eat, and drink, and be merry, and that he should take nothing else with him of his labour in the days of his life, which God hath given him under the sun. Eccl. 8:15
- And I understood that man can find no reason of all those works of God that are done under the sun: and the more he shall labour to seek, so much the less shall he find: yea, though the wise man shall say, that he knoweth it, he shall not be able to find it. Eccl. 8:17
- Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest, all the days of thy unsteady life, which are given to thee under the sun, all the time of thy vanity: for this is thy portion in life, and in thy labour wherewith thou labourest under the sun. Eccl. 9:9
- If the iron be blunt, and be not as before, but be made blunt, with much labour it shall be sharpened: and after industry shall follow wisdom. Eccl. 10:10
- The labour of fools shall afflict them that know not how to go to the city. Eccl. 10:15
- He that awaketh early to seek her, shall not labour: for he shall find her sitting at his door. Wis. 6:15
- Send her out of thy holy heaven, and from the throne of thy majesty, that she may be with me, and may labour with me, that I may know what is acceptable with thee: Wis. 9:10
- And hardly do we guess aright at things that are upon earth: and with labour do we find the things that are before us. But the things that are in heaven, who shall search out? Wis. 9:16
- For the invention of mischievous men hath not deceived us, nor the shadow of a picture, a fruitless labour, a graven figure with divers colours, Wis. 15:4
- The potter also tempering soft earth, with labour fashioneth every vessel for our service, and of the same clay he maketh both vessels that are for clean uses, and likewise such as serve to the contrary: but what is the use of these vessels, the potter is the judge. Wis. 15:7
- And of the same clay by a vain labour he maketh a god: he who a little before was made of earth himself, and a little after returneth to the same out of which he was taken, when his life, which was lent him, shall be called for again. Wis. 15:8
- But his care is, not that he shall labour, nor that his life is short, but he striveth with the goldsmiths and silversmiths: and he endeavoureth to do like the workers in brass, and counteth it a glory to make vain things. Wis. 15:9
- Instead of which things, thou didst feed thy people with the food of angels, and gavest them bread from heaven, prepared without labour; having in it all that is delicious, and the sweetness of every taste. Wis. 16:20
- For in working about her thou shalt labour a little, and shalt quickly eat of her fruits. Sir. 6:20
- The token of a good heart, and a good countenance thou shalt hardly find, and with labour. Sir. 13:32
- Instruct thy son, and labour about him, lest his lewd behaviour be an offence to thee. Sir. 30:13
- When one buildeth up, and another pulleth down: what profit have they but the labour? Sir. 34:28
- ¤ Great labour is created for all men, and a heavy yoke is upon the children of Adam from the day of their coming out of their mother's womb, until the day of their burial into the mother of all. Sir. 40:1
- There is none that shall faint, nor labour among them: they shall not slumber nor sleep, neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken. Isa. 5:27
- And shall be broken. Gripings and pains, shall take hold of them, they shall be in pain as a woman in labour. Every one shall be amazed at his neighbour, their countenances shall be as faces burnt. Isa. 13:8
- And it shall come to pass in that day, that when God shall give thee rest from thy labour, and from thy vexation, and from the hard bondage, wherewith thou didst serve before, Isa. 14:3
- Therefore are my loins filled with pain, anguish hath taken hold of me, as the anguish of a woman in labour: I fell down at the hearing of it, I was troubled at the seeing of it. Isa. 21:3
- Therefore have I said: Depart from me, I will weep bitterly: labour not to comfort me, for the devastation of the daughter of my people. Isa. 22:4
- Be thou ashamed, O Sidon: for the sea speaketh, even the strength of the sea, saying: I have not been in labour, nor have I brought forth, nor have I nourished up young men, nor brought up virgins. Isa. 23:4
- We have conceived, and been as it were in labour, and have brought forth wind: we have not wrought salvation on the earth, therefore the inhabitants of the earth have not fallen. Isa. 26:18
- Knowest thou not, or hast thou not heard? the Lord is the everlasting God, who hath created the ends of the earth: he shall not faint, nor labour, neither is there any searching out of his wisdom. Isa. 40:28
- Youths shall faint, and labour, and young men shall fall by infirmity. Isa. 40:30
- I have always held my peace, I have kept silence, I have been patient, I will speak now as a woman in labour: I will destroy, and swallow up at once. Isa. 42:14
- Thus saith the Lord: The labour of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and of Sabaim, men of stature shall come over to thee, and shall be thine: they shall walk after thee, they shall go bound with manacles: and they shall worship thee, and shall make supplication to thee: only in thee is God, and there is no God besides thee. Isa. 45:14
- Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labour for that which doth not satisfy you? Hearken diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and your soul shall be delighted in fatness. Isa. 55:2
- There is none that calleth upon justice, neither is there any one that judgeth truly: but they trust in a mere nothing, and speak vanities: they have conceived labour, and brought forth iniquity. Isa. 59:4
- My elect shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth in trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord, and their posterity with them. Isa. 65:23
- Before she was in labour, she brought forth; before her time came to be delivered, she brought forth a man child. Isa. 66:7
- Who hath ever heard such a thing? and who hath seen the like to this? shall the earth bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be brought forth at once, because Sion hath been in labour, and hath brought forth her children? Isa. 66:8
- Confusion hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. Jer. 3:24
- For I have heard the voice as of a woman in travail, anguishes as of a woman in labour of a child. The voice of the daughter of Sion, dying away, spreading her hands: Woe is me, for my soul hath fainted because of them that are slain. Jer. 4:31
- We have heard the fame thereof, our hands grow feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, as a woman in labour. Jer. 6:24
- What wilt thou say when he shall visit thee? for thou hast taught them against thee, and instructed them against thy own head: shall not sorrows lay hold on thee, as a woman in labour? Jer. 13:21
- And I will give all the substance of this city, and all its labour, and every precious thing thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of Juda will I give into the hands of their enemies: and they shall pillage them, and take them away, and carry them to Babylon. Jer. 20:5
- Why came I out of the womb, to see labour and sorrow, and that my days should be spent in confusion? Jer. 20:18
- Thou that sittest in Libanus, and makest thy nest in the cedars, how hast thou mourned when sorrows came upon thee, as the pains of a woman in labour? Jer. 22:23
- Ask ye, and see if a man bear children? why then have I seen every man with his hands on his loins, like a woman in labour, and all faces are turned yellow? Jer. 30:6
- Carioth is taken, and the strongholds are won: and the heart of the valiant men of Moab in that day shall be as the heart of a woman in labour. Jer. 48:41
- Behold he shall come up as an eagle, and fly: and he shall spread his wings over Bosra: and in that day the heart of the valiant ones of Edom shall be as the heart of a woman in labour. Jer. 49:22
- Damascus is undone, she is put to flight, trembling hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her as a woman in labour. Jer. 49:24
- The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands are grown feeble: anguish hath taken hold of him, pangs as a woman in labour. Jer. 50:43
- Beth. He hath built round about me, and he hath compassed me with gall, and labour. Lam. 3:5
- Thau. Thou shalt give them a buckler of heart, thy labour. Lam. 3:65
- And I will make a fire in Egypt: Pelusium shall be in pain like a woman in labour, and Alexandria shall be laid waste, and in Memphis there shall be daily distresses. Ezec. 30:16
- The sorrows of a woman in labour shall come upon him, he is an unwise son: for now he shall not stand in the breach of the children. Osee 13:13
- Now, why art thou drawn together with grief? Hast thou no king in thee, or is thy counsellor perished, because sorrow hath taken thee as a woman in labour. Mic. 4:9
- Be in pain and labour, O daughter of Sion, as a woman that bringeth forth: for now shalt thou go out of the city, and shalt dwell in the country, and shalt come even to Babylon, there thou shalt be delivered: there the Lord will redeem thee out of the hand of thy enemies. Mic. 4:10
- Are not these things from the Lord of hosts? for the people shall labour in a great fire: and the nations in vain, and they shall faint. Hab. 2:13
- For the fig tree shall not blossom: and there shall be no spring in the vines. The labour of the olive tree shall fail: and the fields shall yield no food: the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls. Hab. 3:17
- And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the wine, and upon the oil, and upon all that the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon beasts, and upon all the labour of the hands. Agg. 1:11
- And you have said: Behold of our labour, and you puffed it away, saith the Lord of hosts, and you brought in of rapine the lame, and the sick, and brought in an offering: shall I accept it at your hands, saith the Lord? Mal. 1:13
- But as they that prepare a feast, and seek to satisfy the will of others: for the sake of many, we willingly undergo the labour. 2 Ma. 2:28
- And for raiment why are you solicitous? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they labour not, neither do they spin. Mt. 6:28
- Consider the lilies, how they grow: they labour not, neither do they spin. But I say to you, not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these. Lk. 12:27
- I have sent you to reap that in which you did not labour. Others have laboured: and you have entered into their labours. Jn. 4:38
- Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that which endureth unto life everlasting, which the Son of man will give you. For him hath God, the Father, sealed. Jn. 6:27
- A woman, when she is in labour, hath sorrow, because her hour is come; but when she hath brought forth the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world. Jn. 16:21
- Salute Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. Salute Persis, the dearly beloved, who hath much laboured in the Lord. Rom. 16:12
- Now he that planteth and he that watereth, are one. And every man shall receive his own reward, according to his own labour. 1 Cor. 3:8
- And we labour, working with our own hands. We are reviled: and we bless. We are persecuted: and we suffer it. 1 Cor. 4:12
- Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast and unmoveable: always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. 1 Cor. 15:58
- And therefore we labour, whether absent or present, to please him. 2 Cor. 5:9
- In labour and painfulness, in much watchings, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness: 2 Cor. 11:27
- My little children, of whom I am in labour again, until Christ be formed in you. Gal. 4:19
- He that stole, let him now steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have something to give to him that suffereth need. Eph. 4:28
- And if to live in the flesh: this is to me the fruit of labour. And what I shall choose I know not. Phil. 1:22
- Wherein also I labour, striving according to his working which he worketh in me in power. Col. 1:29
- For I bear him testimony that he hath much labour for you and for them that are at Laodicea and them at Hierapolis. Col. 4:13
- Being mindful of the work of your faith and labour and charity: and of the enduring of the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ before God and our Father. 1 Th. 1:3
- For you remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of you, we preached among you the gospel of God. 1 Th. 2:9
- For this cause also, I, forbearing no longer, sent to know your faith: lest perhaps he that tempteth should have tempted you: and our labour should be made vain. 1 Th. 3:5
- And we beseech you, brethren, to know them who labour among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you; 1 Th. 5:12
- Neither did we eat any man's bread for nothing: but in labour and in toil we worked night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of you. 2 Th. 3:8
- For therefore we labour and are reviled, because we hope in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of the faithful. 1 Tim. 4:10
- Let the priests that rule well be esteemed worthy of double honour: especially they who labour in the word and doctrine. 1 Tim. 5:17
- Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but labour with the gospel, according to the power of God. 2 Tim. 1:8
- Labour as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. 2 Tim. 2:3
- Wherein I labour even unto bands, as an evildoer. But the word of God is not bound. 2 Tim. 2:9
- But be thou vigilant, labour in all things, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil thy ministry. Be sober. 2 Tim. 4:5
- Remember them that are in bands, as if you were bound with them: and them that labour, as being yourselves also in the body. Heb. 13:3
- Take, my brethren, for an example of suffering evil, of labour and patience, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. Jas. 5:10
- Wherefore, brethren, labour the more, that by good works you may make sure your calling and election. For doing these things, you shall not sin at any time. 2 Pet. 1:10
- I know thy works and thy labour and thy patience and how thou canst not bear them that are evil. And thou hast tried them who say they are apostles and are not: and hast found them liars: Apoc. 2:2
- The wood of life shal be to them for an odour of oyntment, and they shal not labour, nor be wearied. 4 Esd. 2:12
- Whose reward hath not appeared, nor their labour fructified. For passing through I passed among the nations, and I saw them abound, and not mindeful of thy commandmentes. 4 Esd. 3:33
- And it shal be in that time, men shal hope, and shal not obtaine: they shal labour, and their wayes shal not haue successe. 4 Esd. 5:12
- And he sayd to me: Thou canst not. And I sayd: Why Lord? To what was I borne, or why was not my mothers wombe my graue, that I might not see the labour of Iacob, & the wearines of the stocke of Israel? 4 Esd. 5:35
- and open me the shut cellars, & bring me forth the blastes inclosed in them, shew me the image of a voice: and then wil I shew thee the labour that thou desirest to see. 4 Esd. 5:37
- And the entrance of this world were made streite, and sorowful, & paynful, and few and euil, and ful of dangers, & stuffed very much with labour. 4 Esd. 7:12
- The first order, because they have striven with great labour to overcome the evil thought which was fashioned together with them, that it might not lead them astray from life into death. 4 Esd. 7:92
- Let the multitude therfore perish, which was borne without cause, and let my kernel be kept, & my plant: because I finished it with much labour. 4 Esd. 9:22
- For the law hath not perished, but hath remayned in his labour. (Ezech. 48) 4 Esd. 9:37
- And I nourished him with much labour. 4 Esd. 9:46
- And that which she sayd vnto thee, that she nourished him with labour, this was the habitation in Ierusalem. 4 Esd. 10:47
- And this head terrified al the earth, & ruled in it ouer them that inhabite the earth with much labour, and he that held the dominion of the whole world aboue al the winges that were. 4 Esd. 11:32
- and them that dwel in it, with much labour aboue al them that vvere before them. For this cause they are called the heads of the eagle. 4 Esd. 12:24
- Which were likened to the flame, and he shal destroy them without labour by the law that was likened to the fyre. 4 Esd. 13:38
- Wherfore they that labour, labour without cause: 4 Esd. 16:46