When it was about nine o’clock in the morning, ¹  he went out again and saw others standing around in the marketplace without work.

They said to him, ‘Because no one hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You go and work in the vineyard too.’

And the landowner ¹  replied to one of them, ²  ‘Friend, I am not treating you unfairly. Didn’t you agree with me to work for the standard wage? ³ 

“What ¹  do you think? A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work in the vineyard today.’

The one who had received five talents went off right away and put his money to work ¹  and gained five more.

Consider how the flowers ¹  grow; they do not work ²  or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these!

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of the one who sent me ¹  and to complete ²  his work. ³ 

I sent you to reap what you did not work for; others have labored and you have entered into their labor.”

We must perform the deeds ¹  of the one who sent me ²  as long as ³  it is daytime. Night is coming when no one can work.

While they were serving ¹  the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart ²  for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”

From there they sailed back to Antioch, ¹  where they had been commended ²  to the grace of God for the work they had now completed. ³ 

but Paul insisted ¹  that they should not take along this one who had left them in Pamphylia ²  and had not accompanied them in the work.

They ¹  show that the work of the law is written ²  in their hearts, as their conscience bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or else defend ³  them, ⁴ 

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.

And we know that all things work together ¹  for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose,

If someone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss. ¹  He himself will be saved, but only as through fire.

We do hard work, toiling with our own hands. When we are verbally abused, we respond with a blessing, when persecuted, we endure,

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

Now if Timothy comes, see that he has nothing to fear among you, for he is doing the Lord’s work, as I am too.

Thus ¹  we urged ²  Titus that, just as he had previously begun this work, ³  so also he should complete this act of kindness ⁴  for you.