This also comes from the Lord who commands armies, who gives supernatural guidance and imparts great wisdom. ¹ 

Whoever is not with me is against me, ¹  and whoever does not gather with me scatters. ² 

Whoever is not with me is against me, ¹  and whoever does not gather with me scatters. ² 

We are coworkers belonging to God. ¹  You are God’s field, God’s building.

(for he who empowered ¹  Peter for his apostleship ²  to the circumcised ³  also empowered me for my apostleship to the Gentiles) ⁴ 

For we hear that some among you are living an undisciplined life, ¹  not doing their own work but meddling in the work of others. ² 

who will transform these humble bodies of ours ¹  into the likeness of his glorious body by means of that power by which he is able to subject all things to himself.

So confess your sins to one another and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great effectiveness. ¹ 

For they are the spirits of the demons performing signs who go out to the kings of the earth ¹  to bring them together for the battle that will take place on the great day of God, the All-Powerful. ² 

Now Boaz, with whose female servants you worked, is our close relative. ¹  Look, tonight he is winnowing barley at the threshing floor. ² 

You also have available many workers, including stonecutters, masons, carpenters, ¹  and an innumerable array of workers who are skilled

After him the Levites worked – Rehum son of Bani and ¹  after him Hashabiah, head of half the district of Keilah, for his district.

I gave myself to the work on this wall, without even purchasing ¹  a field. All my associates were gathered there for the work.

The sleep of the laborer is pleasant – whether he eats little or much – but the wealth of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

They did not find me arguing ¹  with anyone or stirring up a crowd ²  in the temple courts ³  or in the synagogues ⁴  or throughout the city, ⁵ 

But to the one who does not work, but believes in the one who declares the ungodly righteous, ¹  his faith is credited as righteousness.

For our momentary, light suffering ¹  is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison

for the one bringing forth in you both the desire and the effort – for the sake of his good pleasure – is God.

to aspire to lead a quiet life, to attend to your own business, and to work with your hands, as we commanded you.

to be self-controlled, ¹  pure, fulfilling their duties at home, ²  kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the message ³  of God may not be discredited. ⁴