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Biblical Insights: Ten Passages to Comfort Workers
Contents
Introduction to Biblical
Insights
Three Bible Study Ideas
10 Passages to Comfort
Workers
10 Bible Studies that
Affirm Workers
Characters in the Bible
Passages to Play With
What's the Bible Have to
Say About...?
Five Hard Questions
Other Bible Links
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Exodus 20:8-11 |
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"Remember
the sabbath day, to keep it holy. |
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Six days
you shall labor, and do all your work; |
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but the
seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God; in it
you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your
daughter, your manservant, or your maidservant, or
your cattle, or the sojourner who is within your
gates; |
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for in
six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and
all that is in them, and rested the seventh day;
therefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and
hallowed it. |
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Deuteronomy 8:1-11 |
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"All
the commandments which I command you this day you shall
be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go
in and possess the land which the LORD swore to give to
your fathers. |
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And you
shall remember all the ways which the LORD your God has
led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he
might humble you, testing you to know what was in your
heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not. |
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And he
humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna,
which you did not know, nor did your fathers know; that
he might make you know that man does not live by bread
alone, but that man lives by everything that proceeds
out of the mouth of the LORD. |
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Your
clothing did not wear out upon you, and your foot did
not swell, these forty years. |
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Know then
in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the
LORD your God disciplines you. |
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So you
shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, by
walking in his ways and by fearing him. |
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For the
LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land
of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing
forth in valleys and hills, |
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a land of
wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and
pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey, |
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a land in
which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you
will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron, and out
of whose hills you can dig copper. |
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And you
shall eat and be full, and you shall bless the LORD your
God for the good land he has given you. |
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"Take
heed lest you forget the LORD your God, by not keeping
his commandments and his ordinances and his statutes,
which I command you this day: |
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Job 28:1-4; 9-11 |
| 1 |
"Surely
there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which
they refine. |
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Iron is
taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted from the
ore. |
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Men put an
end to darkness, and search out to the farthest bound
the ore in gloom and deep darkness. |
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They open
shafts in a valley away from where men live; they are
forgotten by travelers, they hang afar from men, they
swing to and fro. |
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"Man
puts his hand to the flinty rock, and overturns
mountains by the roots. |
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He cuts
out channels in the rocks, and his eye sees every
precious thing. |
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He binds
up the streams so that they do not trickle, and the
thing that is hid he brings forth to light. |
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Psalm 35 |
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A Psalm of
David. Contend, O LORD, with those who contend with me;
fight against those who fight against me! |
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Take hold
of shield and buckler, and rise for my help! |
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Draw the
spear and javelin against my pursuers! Say to my soul,
"I am your deliverance!" |
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Let them
be put to shame and dishonor who seek after my life! Let
them be turned back and confounded who devise evil
against me! |
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Let them
be like chaff before the wind, with the angel of the
LORD driving them on! |
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Let their
way be dark and slippery, with the angel of the LORD
pursuing them! |
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For
without cause they hid their net for me; without cause
they dug a pit for my life. |
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Let ruin
come upon them unawares! And let the net which they hid
ensnare them; let them fall therein to ruin! |
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Then my
soul shall rejoice in the LORD, exulting in his
deliverance. |
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All my
bones shall say, "O LORD, who is like thee, thou
who deliverest the weak from him who is too strong for
him, the weak and needy from him who despoils him?" |
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Malicious
witnesses rise up; they ask me of things that I know
not. |
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They
requite me evil for good; my soul is forlorn. |
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But I,
when they were sick--I wore sackcloth, I afflicted
myself with fasting. I prayed with head bowed on my
bosom, |
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as though
I grieved for my friend or my brother; I went about as
one who laments his mother, bowed down and in mourning. |
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But at my
stumbling they gathered in glee, they gathered together
against me; cripples whom I knew not slandered me
without ceasing; |
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they
impiously mocked more and more, gnashing at me with
their teeth. |
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How long,
O LORD, wilt thou look on? Rescue me from their ravages,
my life from the lions! |
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Then I
will thank thee in the great congregation; in the mighty
throng I will praise thee. |
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Let not
those rejoice over me who are wrongfully my foes, and
let not those wink the eye who hate me without cause. |
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For they
do not speak peace, but against those who are quiet in
the land they conceive words of deceit. |
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They open
wide their mouths against me; they say, "Aha, Aha!
our eyes have seen it!" |
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Thou hast
seen, O LORD; be not silent! O Lord, be not far from me! |
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Bestir
thyself, and awake for my right, for my cause, my God
and my Lord! |
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Vindicate
me, O LORD, my God, according to thy righteousness; and
let them not rejoice over me! |
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Let them
not say to themselves, "Aha, we have our heart's
desire!" Let them not say, "We have swallowed
him up." |
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Let them
be put to shame and confusion altogether who rejoice at
my calamity! Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor
who magnify themselves against me! |
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Let those
who desire my vindication shout for joy and be glad, and
say evermore, "Great is the LORD, who delights in
the welfare of his servant!" |
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Then my
tongue shall tell of thy righteousness and of thy praise
all the day long. |
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Psalm 116:5-7 |
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Gracious is the LORD,
and righteous; our God is merciful. |
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The LORD preserves
the simple; when I was brought low, he saved me. |
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Return, O my soul, to
your rest; for the LORD has dealt bountifully with
you. |
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Proverbs 11:27 |
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He who diligently seeks
good seeks favor, but evil comes to him who searches for
it. |
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Ecclesiastes 9:7-10 |
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Go, eat
your bread with enjoyment, and drink your wine with a
merry heart; for God has already approved what you do |
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Let your
garments be always white; let not oil be lacking on your
head. |
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Enjoy life
with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain
life which he has given you under the sun, because that
is your portion in life and in your toil at which you
toil under the sun. |
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Whatever
your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there
is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol,
to which you are going. |
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Matthew 18:15-17 |
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"If
your brother sins against you, go and tell him his
fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you,
you have gained your brother. |
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But if he
does not listen, take one or two others along with you,
that every word may be confirmed by the evidence of two
or three witnesses. |
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If he
refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if
he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to
you as a Gentile and a tax collector. |
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Galatians 5:16-26 |
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But I say,
walk by the Spirit, and do not gratify the desires of
the flesh. |
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For the
desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the
desires of the Spirit are against the flesh; for these
are opposed to each other, to prevent you from doing
what you would. |
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But if you
are led by the Spirit you are not under the law. |
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Now the
works of the flesh are plain: fornication, impurity,
licentiousness, |
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idolatry,
sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger, selfishness,
dissension, party spirit, |
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envy,
drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you, as I
warned you before, that those who do such things shall
not inherit the kingdom of God. |
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But the
fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience,
kindness, goodness, faithfulness, |
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gentleness,
self-control; against such there is no law. |
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And those
who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with
its passions and desires. |
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If we live
by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. |
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Let us
have no self-conceit, no provoking of one another, no
envy of one another. |
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Galatians 6:3-10 |
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For if any
one thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he
deceives himself. |
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But let
each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast
will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor. |
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For each
man will have to bear his own load. |
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Let him
who is taught the word share all good things with him
who teaches. |
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Do not be
deceived; God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows,
that he will also reap. |
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For he who
sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap
corruption; but he who sows to the Spirit will from the
Spirit reap eternal life. |
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And let us
not grow weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall
reap, if we do not lose heart. |
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So then,
as we have opportunity, let us do good to all men, and
especially to those who are of the household of faith |
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