Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. Salute the beloved Persis, which laboured much in the Lord.

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: / All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; / The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.