What Does the Bible Say About Chores?

Philippians 2:14-15 ESV / 104 helpful votes

Do all things without grumbling or disputing, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,

Proverbs 25:12-13 ESV / 50 helpful votes

Like a gold ring or an ornament of gold is a wise reprover to a listening ear. Like the cold of snow in the time of harvest is a faithful messenger to those who send him; he refreshes the soul of his masters.

Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV / 47 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”

Colossians 3:20 ESV / 44 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

Galatians 6:5 ESV / 42 helpful votes

For each will have to bear his own load.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 41 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 38 helpful votes

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Proverbs 31:10-31 ESV / 32 helpful votes

An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain. She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life. She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands. She is like the ships of the merchant; she brings her food from afar. ...

1 Corinthians 14:40 ESV / 31 helpful votes

But all things should be done decently and in order.

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 29 helpful votes

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Philippians 2:14 ESV / 27 helpful votes

Do all things without grumbling or disputing,

Luke 16:10 ESV / 27 helpful votes

“One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.

1 Corinthians 3:8 ESV / 21 helpful votes

He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor.

1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 ESV / 20 helpful votes

And to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you, so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one.

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 14 helpful votes

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Psalm 51:10 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 13 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Galatians 6:4-5 ESV / 13 helpful votes

But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor. For each will have to bear his own load.

James 4:8 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

Titus 2:3-5 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 10 helpful votes

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Proverbs 23:24-25 ESV / 10 helpful votes

The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him. Let your father and mother be glad; let her who bore you rejoice.

Ephesians 6:7 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man,

Luke 10:40-42 ESV / 8 helpful votes

But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she went up to him and said, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me.” But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her.”

Proverbs 6:6-8 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. Without having any chief, officer, or ruler, she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest.

Titus 2:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes

To be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

Isaiah 1:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil,

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Philippians 4:19 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Proverbs 27:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

Exodus 19:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The Lord said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. ...

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

John 14:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

John 3:1-36 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. ...

Matthew 11:28 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Matthew 5:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

Proverbs 2:16-18 ESV / 5 helpful votes

So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words, who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God; for her house sinks down to death, and her paths to the departed;

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

2 Thessalonians 3:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.

Colossians 3:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

Romans 5:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

John 8:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

John 3:16-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.

John 1:1-51 ESV / 4 helpful votes

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. ...

Ecclesiastes 9:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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.

Proverbs 22:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Ephesians 6:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise),

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Psalm 51:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.

58 Bible Verses about Chores

Philippians 2:14-15 ESV / 104 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 25:12-13 ESV / 50 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV / 47 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 3:20 ESV / 44 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 6:5 ESV / 42 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 41 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 38 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 31:10-31 ESV / 32 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 14:40 ESV / 31 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 29 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 2:14 ESV / 27 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 16:10 ESV / 27 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 3:8 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 51:10 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 1:9 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 6:4-5 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 4:8 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Titus 2:3-5 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 23:24-25 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 6:7 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 10:40-42 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 6:6-8 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Titus 2:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 1:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 4:19 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 12:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 27:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 19:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 14:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:1-36 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 11:28 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 5:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 2:16-18 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Thessalonians 3:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 3:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 5:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 8:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 1:1-51 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ecclesiastes 9:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 22:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 6:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 51:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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