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100 Bible Verses about Child Labor

Matthew 19:14 ESV / 1,280 helpful votes

But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.”

2 Corinthians 12:14 ESV / 1,138 helpful votes

Here for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be a burden, for I seek not what is yours but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

John 16:21 ESV / 927 helpful votes

When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 844 helpful votes

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 839 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Luke 18:15-17 ESV / 823 helpful votes

Now they were bringing even infants to him that he might touch them. And when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. But Jesus called them to him, saying, “Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God. Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.”

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 810 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Romans 9:12 ESV / 804 helpful votes

She was told, “The older will serve the younger.”

Colossians 3:23 ESV / 761 helpful votes

Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 731 helpful votes

Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

Proverbs 24:11 ESV / 706 helpful votes

Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter.

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 689 helpful votes

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Matthew 5:16 ESV / 687 helpful votes

In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

Ephesians 4:28 ESV / 685 helpful votes

Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.

Acts 20:35 ESV / 639 helpful votes

In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

Genesis 3:16 ESV / 631 helpful votes

To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you.”

Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 603 helpful votes

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

John 14:27 ESV / 594 helpful votes

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

Proverbs 14:23 ESV / 590 helpful votes

In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.

Matthew 11:28 ESV / 589 helpful votes

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 581 helpful votes

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

Isaiah 26:3 ESV / 579 helpful votes

You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.

Psalm 127:1 ESV / 576 helpful votes

A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon. Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.

Proverbs 12:11 ESV / 572 helpful votes

Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense.

Proverbs 18:9 ESV / 567 helpful votes

Whoever is slack in his work is a brother to him who destroys.

Ecclesiastes 9:10 ESV / 565 helpful votes

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 553 helpful votes

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

John 3:16 ESV / 551 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Proverbs 10:4 ESV / 535 helpful votes

A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

Psalm 127:3 ESV / 535 helpful votes

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 534 helpful votes

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Proverbs 16:3 ESV / 523 helpful votes

Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 511 helpful votes

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 505 helpful votes

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 502 helpful votes

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Psalm 48:6 ESV / 497 helpful votes

Trembling took hold of them there, anguish as of a woman in labor.

Jeremiah 31:8 ESV / 469 helpful votes

Behold, I will bring them from the north country and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth, among them the blind and the lame, the pregnant woman and she who is in labor, together; a great company, they shall return here.

1 Thessalonians 4:11 ESV / 461 helpful votes

And to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you,

1 Thessalonians 3:10 ESV / 455 helpful votes

As we pray most earnestly night and day that we may see you face to face and supply what is lacking in your faith?

1 Thessalonians 5:3 ESV / 451 helpful votes

While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

1 Corinthians 15:58 ESV / 436 helpful votes

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

Luke 10:7 ESV / 434 helpful votes

And remain in the same house, eating and drinking what they provide, for the laborer deserves his wages. Do not go from house to house.

Isaiah 13:8 ESV / 423 helpful votes

They will be dismayed: pangs and agony will seize them; they will be in anguish like a woman in labor. They will look aghast at one another; their faces will be aflame.

Psalm 55:22 ESV / 423 helpful votes

Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 416 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Jeremiah 4:31 ESV / 413 helpful votes

For I heard a cry as of a woman in labor, anguish as of one giving birth to her first child, the cry of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands, “Woe is me! I am fainting before murderers.”

1 Timothy 5:18 ESV / 412 helpful votes

For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain,” and, “The laborer deserves his wages.”

James 5:4 ESV / 409 helpful votes

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.

John 6:27 ESV / 409 helpful votes

Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.”

Genesis 2:15 ESV / 409 helpful votes

The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.

1 Thessalonians 1:3 ESV / 407 helpful votes

Remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Hebrews 6:10 ESV / 402 helpful votes

For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do.

1 Corinthians 4:12 ESV / 397 helpful votes

And we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure;

Romans 8:18 ESV / 393 helpful votes

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 393 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Exodus 20:9 ESV / 374 helpful votes

Six days you shall labor, and do all your work,

Malachi 3:5 ESV / 371 helpful votes

“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 369 helpful votes

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. ...

Proverbs 13:11 ESV / 369 helpful votes

Wealth gained hastily will dwindle, but whoever gathers little by little will increase it.

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 364 helpful votes

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

Leviticus 19:13 ESV / 360 helpful votes

“You shall not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of a hired worker shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

Genesis 2:2-3 ESV / 360 helpful votes

And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.

Jeremiah 30:6 ESV / 357 helpful votes

Ask now, and see, can a man bear a child? Why then do I see every man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor? Why has every face turned pale?

Proverbs 22:16 ESV / 357 helpful votes

Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.

1 Thessalonians 2:9 ESV / 354 helpful votes

For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil: we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

Exodus 20:10 ESV / 353 helpful votes

But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates.

2 Thessalonians 3:10 ESV / 352 helpful votes

For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.

2 Thessalonians 3:8 ESV / 351 helpful votes

Nor did we eat anyone's bread without paying for it, but with toil and labor we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you.

1 Corinthians 3:8 ESV / 351 helpful votes

He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor.

Genesis 3:23 ESV / 351 helpful votes

Therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.

Acts 18:3 ESV / 350 helpful votes

And because he was of the same trade he stayed with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade.

Matthew 20:1-15 ESV / 350 helpful votes

“For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the marketplace, and to them he said, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went. Going out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour, he did the same. ...

Matthew 10:10 ESV / 350 helpful votes

No bag for your journey, or two tunics or sandals or a staff, for the laborer deserves his food.

1 Timothy 4:10 ESV / 344 helpful votes

For to this end we toil and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe.

Psalm 128:2 ESV / 343 helpful votes

You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.

Deuteronomy 15:10 ESV / 342 helpful votes

You shall give to him freely, and your heart shall not be grudging when you give to him, because for this the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake.

John 10:10 ESV / 341 helpful votes

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

Ecclesiastes 3:22 ESV / 341 helpful votes

So I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his work, for that is his lot. Who can bring him to see what will be after him?

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 340 helpful votes

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

Isaiah 66:7 ESV / 337 helpful votes

“Before she was in labor she gave birth; before her pain came upon her she delivered a son.

James 4:8 ESV / 330 helpful votes

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

2 Chronicles 15:7 ESV / 321 helpful votes

But you, take courage! Do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded.”

John 5:17 ESV / 310 helpful votes

But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.”

Psalm 90:17 ESV / 304 helpful votes

Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands upon us; yes, establish the work of our hands!

Genesis 1:28 ESV / 304 helpful votes

And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Colossians 3:17 ESV / 300 helpful votes

And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

1 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 295 helpful votes

Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.

Jeremiah 22:23 ESV / 295 helpful votes

O inhabitant of Lebanon, nested among the cedars, how you will be pitied when pangs come upon you, pain as of a woman in labor!”

Ecclesiastes 3:12-13 ESV / 278 helpful votes

I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live; also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God's gift to man.

John 4:34 ESV / 273 helpful votes

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

Proverbs 22:29 ESV / 272 helpful votes

Do you see a man skillful in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 262 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

Ecclesiastes 5:18-20 ESV / 248 helpful votes

Behold, what I have seen to be good and fitting is to eat and drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of his life that God has given him, for this is his lot. Everyone also to whom God has given wealth and possessions and power to enjoy them, and to accept his lot and rejoice in his toil—this is the gift of God. For he will not much remember the days of his life because God keeps him occupied with joy in his heart.

Matthew 7:15-20 ESV / 232 helpful votes

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. ...

Romans 8:22 ESV / 229 helpful votes

For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.

Micah 4:9 ESV / 225 helpful votes

Now why do you cry aloud? Is there no king in you? Has your counselor perished, that pain seized you like a woman in labor?

2 Corinthians 12:9 ESV / 215 helpful votes

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

Psalm 113:9 ESV / 215 helpful votes

He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous mother of children. Praise the Lord!

Psalm 127:3-5 ESV / 193 helpful votes

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.

Deuteronomy 28:4 ESV / 179 helpful votes

Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock.

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