Industry

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• 1 Thessalonians 2:9 NT

  For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.

• Acts 20:35 NT

  In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

• Proverbs 24:30 OT

  I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding:

• Proverbs 24:31 OT

  Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.

• Proverbs 13:11 OT

  Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.

• Proverbs 31:28 OT

  Her children rise up and call her blessed. Her husband also praises her:

• Proverbs 31:31 OT

  Give her of the fruit of her hands! Let her works praise her in the gates!

• Proverbs 6:6-8 OT

  Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise; which having no chief, overseer, or ruler, provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.

• Genesis 29:9 OT

  While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she kept them.

• Genesis 31:6 OT

  You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.

• Exodus 2:10 OT

  The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, and said, “Because I drew him out of the water.”

• Ruth 2:2 OT

  Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Let me now go to the field, and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I find favor.” She said to her, “Go, my daughter.”

• Ruth 2:3 OT

  She went, and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers; and she happened to come to the portion of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.

• 1 Kings 11:28 OT

  The man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor; and Solomon saw the young man that he was industrious, and he put him in charge of all the labor of the house of Joseph.

• 1 Samuel 16:11 OT

  Samuel said to Jesse, “Are all your children here?” He said, “There remains yet the youngest. Behold, he is keeping the sheep.” Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and get him, for we will not sit down until he comes here.”

• Ezra 6:14 OT

  The elders of the Jews built and prospered, through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. They built and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the decree of Cyrus,…

• Ezra 6:15 OT

  This house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.

• Acts 9:39 NT

  Peter got up and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper room. All the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.

• Acts 18:3 NT

  and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.

• 1 Corinthians 4:12 NT

  We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.