They traded with you choice garments, purple clothes and embroidered work, and multicolored carpets, bound and reinforced with cords; these were among your merchandise.

The night has advanced toward dawn; the day is near. So then we must lay aside the works of darkness, and put on the weapons of light.

so that we may preach the gospel in the regions that lie beyond you, and not boast of work already done in another person’s area.

What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can this kind of faith save him?

And similarly, was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she welcomed the messengers and sent them out by another way?

Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct he should show his works done in the gentleness that wisdom brings.

“You know how I have worked for you,” Jacob replied, “and how well your livestock have fared under my care.

Rephaiah son of Hur, head of a half-district of Jerusalem, worked on the section adjacent to them.

After him their relatives worked – Binnui son of Henadad, head of a half-district of Keilah.

A bribe works like a charm for the one who offers it; in whatever he does he succeeds.

So I began to despair about all the fruit of my labor for which I worked so hard on earth.

He has filled them with skill to do all kinds of work as craftsmen, as designers, as embroiderers in blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and in fine linen, and as weavers. They are craftsmen in all the work and artistic designers.

He sent them to Lebanon in shifts of 10,000 men per month. They worked in Lebanon for one month, and then spent two months at home. Adoniram was supervisor of the work crews.

Hanun and the residents of Zanoah worked on the Valley Gate. They rebuilt it and positioned its doors, its bolts, and its bars, in addition to working on fifteen hundred feet of the wall as far as the Dung Gate.

warn them of the statutes and the laws, and make known to them the way in which they must walk and the work they must do.

In the north when he is at work, I do not see him; when he turns to the south, I see no trace of him.

A person will be satisfied with good from the fruit of his words, and the work of his hands will be rendered to him.

For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

Here is another way that our people can learn to engage in good works to meet pressing needs and so not be unfruitful.

“O, Lord God, you have begun to show me your greatness and strength. (What god in heaven or earth can rival your works and mighty deeds?)