Bible Verses about “getting a job”

“But seek first God's Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.”

“"No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can't serve both God and Mammon.”

“For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: "If anyone will not work, neither let him eat."”

“and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;”

“that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.”

“Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.”

“Let them judge the people at all times. It shall be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they shall judge themselves. So shall it be easier for you, and they shall share the load with you.”

“You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.”

“If you will do this thing, and God commands you so, then you will be able to endure, and all of these people also will go to their place in peace."”

“and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all kinds of workmanship,”

“to devise skillful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,”

“and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of workmanship.”

“It happened on the next day, that Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from the morning to the evening.”

“When Moses' father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, "What is this thing that you do for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning to evening?"”

“Moses said to his father-in-law, "Because the people come to me to inquire of God.”

“When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws."”

“Moses' father-in-law said to him, "The thing that you do is not good.”

“You will surely wear away, both you, and this people that is with you; for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to perform it yourself alone.”

“Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel, and God be with you. You represent the people before God, and bring the causes to God.”

“Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,”

“"Behold, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah:”

“I, behold, I have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of all who are wise-hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded you:”

“It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.'"”

“"'Let every wise-hearted man among you come, and make all that Yahweh has commanded:”

“Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to Yahweh. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall surely be put to death.”

“Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.”

“Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses into the wilderness where he was encamped, at the Mountain of God.”

“"Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, 'Most certainly you shall keep my Sabbaths: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that you may know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies you.”

“You shall keep the Sabbath therefore; for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.”

“the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the testimony, the mercy seat that is on it, all the furniture of the Tent,”

“the table and its vessels, the pure lampstand with all its vessels, the altar of incense,”

“the altar of burnt offering with all its vessels, the basin and its base,”

“the finely worked garments--the holy garments for Aaron the priest--the garments of his sons to minister in the priest's office,”

“the anointing oil, and the incense of sweet spices for the holy place: according to all that I have commanded you they shall do."”

“Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the thing in which they dealt arrogantly against them."”

“So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said.”

“Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.”

“They judged the people at all times. They brought the hard causes to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.”

“Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went his way into his own land.”

“Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,”

“He gave to Moses, when he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony, stone tablets, written with God's finger.”

“I have made the earth, the men and the animals that are on the surface of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I give it to whom it seems right to me.”

“Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, how that Yahweh had brought Israel out of Egypt.”

“Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, received Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away,”

“and her two sons. The name of one son was Gershom, for Moses said, "I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land".”

“The name of the other was Eliezer, for he said, "My father's God was my help and delivered me from Pharaoh's sword."”

“He said to Moses, "I, your father-in-law Jethro, have come to you with your wife, and her two sons with her."”

“Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed and kissed him. They asked each other of their welfare, and they came into the tent.”

“Moses told his father-in-law all that Yahweh had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the hardships that had come on them on the way, and how Yahweh delivered them.”

“Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which Yahweh had done to Israel, in that he had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians.”