John 21:3

Unless Yahweh builds the house, they who build it labor in vain. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.

Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us. Establish the work of our hands for us. Yes, establish the work of our hands.

His mother said to the servants, “Whatever he says to you, do it.”

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.

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

Simon answered him, “Master, we worked all night, and took nothing; but at your word I will let down the net.”

in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

sow fields, plant vineyards, and reap the fruits of increase.

They came to him, and awoke him, saying, “Master, master, we are dying!” He awoke, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water, and they ceased, and it was calm.

Joses, who by the apostles was also called Barnabas (which is, being interpreted, Son of Encouragement), a Levite, a man of Cyprus by race,

When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn’t a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.

Not to us, Yahweh, not to us, but to your name give glory, for your loving kindness, and for your truth’s sake.

They lifted up their voices, saying, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!”

If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

Please let us go to the Jordan, and each man take a beam from there, and let’s make us a place there, where we may live.” He answered, “Go!”

But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, plus forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants ruled over the people; but I didn’t do so, because of the fear of God.

Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep. Also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days a store of all sorts of wine. Yet for all this, I didn’t demand the governor’s pay, because the bondage was heavy on this people.

For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer.

Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.

He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may produce food out of the earth:

She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp doesn’t go out by night.

I have seen the burden which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded. You are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day. Everyone mocks me.

Don’t be afraid, you animals of the field; for the pastures of the wilderness spring up, for the tree bears its fruit. The fig tree and the vine yield their strength.

As they were parting from him, Peter said to Jesus, “Master, it is good for us to be here. Let’s make three tents: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah,” not knowing what he said.

Then he said to them, “The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that he may send out laborers into his harvest.

Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?

But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles, and declared to them how he had seen the Lord on the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the name of Jesus.

Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

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

Having sent into Macedonia two of those who served him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while.

But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.

You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God’s Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ;

Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave to him?

So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

Have we no right to eat and to drink?

Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?

But I have used none of these things, and I don’t write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.

What then is my reward? That when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.

What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

There are various kinds of workings, but the same God, who works all things in all.

But God gives it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.

that you also be in subjection to such, and to everyone who helps in the work and labors.

in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God’s Good News free of charge?

For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong.

Then after a period of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me.

Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.

For even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to my need.

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Good News of God in much conflict.

nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.

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.

night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

neither did we eat bread from anyone’s hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you,

Now she who is a widow indeed and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.

But godliness with contentment is great gain.

I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day

The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within. They have no rest day and night, saying, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come!”