Industry
49 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
23 sections
- Characteristic of Godly Women
- Commanded
- David
- Dorcas
- Early Rising Necessary To
- General Scriptures Concerning
- Illustrated
- Jacob
- Jeroboam
- Jethro's Daughters
- Jewish Elders
- Leads to Affection of Relatives
- Leads to General Commendation
- Leads to Increase of Substance
- Paul
- Rachel
- Required of Man After the Fall
- Required of Man in a State of Innocence
- Requisite to Supply: Our own Wants
- Requisite to Supply: Wants of Others
- Ruth
- The Slothful Devoid of
- To be Suspended on the Sabbath
Characteristic of Godly Women
- Proverbs 31:13–31 She selects wool and flax and works with eager hands. …
Commanded
- Ephesians 4:28 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.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:11 and to aspire to live quietly, to attend to your own matters, and to work with your own hands, as we instructed you.
David
- 1 Samuel 16:11 And Samuel asked him, “Are these all the sons you have?” “There is still the youngest,” Jesse replied, “but he is tending the sheep.” “Send for him,” Samuel replied. “For we will not sit down to eat until he arrives.”
Dorcas
- Acts 9:39 So Peter got up and went with them. On his arrival, they took him to the upper room. All the widows stood around him, weeping and showing him the tunics and other clothing that Dorcas had made while she was still with them.
Early Rising Necessary To
- Proverbs 31:15 She rises while it is still night to provide food for her household and portions for her maidservants.
General Scriptures Concerning
- Genesis 2:15 Then the LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.
- Exodus 23:12 For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you must cease, so that your ox and your donkey may rest and the son of your maidservant may be refreshed, as well as the foreign resident.
- Exodus 35:2 For six days work may be done, but the seventh day shall be your holy day, a Sabbath of complete rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on that day must be put to death.
- Deuteronomy 5:13 Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
- Proverbs 10:4–5 Idle hands make one poor, but diligent hands bring wealth. …
- Proverbs 12:11 The one who works his land will have plenty of food, but whoever chases fantasies lacks judgment.
- Proverbs 12:24 The hand of the diligent will rule, but laziness ends in forced labor.
- Proverbs 12:27 A lazy man does not roast his game, but a diligent man prizes his possession.
- Proverbs 13:4 The slacker craves yet has nothing, but the soul of the diligent is fully satisfied.
- Proverbs 13:11 Dishonest wealth will dwindle, but what is earned through hard work will be multiplied.
- Proverbs 13:23 Abundant food is in the fallow ground of the poor, but without justice it is swept away.
- Proverbs 14:4 Where there are no oxen, the manger is empty, but an abundant harvest comes through the strength of the ox.
- Proverbs 14:23 There is profit in all labor, but mere talk leads only to poverty.
- Proverbs 16:26 A worker’s appetite works for him because his hunger drives him onward.
- Proverbs 20:13 Do not love sleep, or you will grow poor; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of food.
- Proverbs 21:5 The plans of the diligent bring plenty, as surely as haste leads to poverty.
- Proverbs 22:29 Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will be stationed in the presence of kings; he will not stand before obscure men.
- Proverbs 27:23–27 Be sure to know the state of your flocks, and pay close attention to your herds; …
- Proverbs 28:19 The one who works his land will have plenty of food, but whoever chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.
- Proverbs 30:25–28 The ants are creatures of little strength, yet they store up their food in the summer; …
- Proverbs 31:13–27 She selects wool and flax and works with eager hands. …
- Ecclesiastes 1:3 What does a man gain from all his labor, at which he toils under the sun?
- Ecclesiastes 2:10–11 Anything my eyes desired, I did not deny myself. I refused my heart no pleasure. For my heart took delight in all my work, and this was the reward for all my labor. …
- Ecclesiastes 2:17–22 So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind. …
- Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.
- Ecclesiastes 11:4 He who watches the wind will fail to sow, and he who observes the clouds will fail to reap.
- Ecclesiastes 11:6 Sow your seed in the morning, and do not rest your hands in the evening, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or if both will equally prosper.
- Romans 12:11 Do not let your zeal subside; keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.
- Ephesians 4:28 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.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:11–12 and to aspire to live quietly, to attend to your own matters, and to work with your own hands, as we instructed you. …
- 2 Thessalonians 3:10–12 For even while we were with you, we gave you this command: “If anyone is unwilling to work, he shall not eat.” …
- 1 Timothy 5:8 If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
Illustrated
- Proverbs 6:6–8 Walk in the manner of the ant, O slacker; observe its ways and become wise. …
Jacob
- Genesis 31:6 You know that I have served your father with all my strength.
Jeroboam
- 1 Kings 11:28 Now Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor. So when Solomon noticed that the young man was industrious, he put him in charge of the whole labor force of the house of Joseph.
Jethro's Daughters
- Exodus 2:10 When the child had grown older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses and explained, “I drew him out of the water.”
Jewish Elders
- Ezra 6:14–15 So the Jewish elders built and prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah son of Iddo. They finished building according to the command of the God of Israel and the decrees of Cyrus, Darius, and …
Leads to Affection of Relatives
- Proverbs 31:28 Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband praises her as well:
Leads to General Commendation
- Proverbs 31:31 Give her the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her at the gates.
Leads to Increase of Substance
- Proverbs 13:11 Dishonest wealth will dwindle, but what is earned through hard work will be multiplied.
Paul
- Acts 18:3 and he stayed and worked with them because they were tentmakers by trade, just as he was.
- Acts 20:33–34 I have not coveted anyone’s silver or gold or clothing. …
- 2 Thessalonians 3:8 nor did we eat anyone’s food without paying for it. Instead, in labor and toil, we worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to any of you.
Rachel
- Genesis 29:9 While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess.
Required of Man After the Fall
- Genesis 3:23 Therefore the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.
Required of Man in a State of Innocence
- Genesis 2:15 Then the LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.
Requisite to Supply: Our own Wants
- Acts 20:34 You yourselves know that these hands of mine have ministered to my own needs and those of my companions.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:9 Surely you recall, brothers, our labor and toil. We worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to anyone while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
Requisite to Supply: Wants of Others
- Acts 20:35 In everything, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus Himself: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
- Ephesians 4:28 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.
Ruth
- Ruth 2:2–3 And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Please let me go into the fields and glean heads of grain after someone in whose sight I may find favor.” “Go ahead, my daughter,” Naomi replied. …
The Slothful Devoid of
- Proverbs 24:30–31 I went past the field of a slacker and by the vineyard of a man lacking judgment. …
To be Suspended on the Sabbath
- Exodus 20:10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work— neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant or livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates.
Related topics
EconomicsWomen in BusinessSlothfulnessAntIdleness
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.