What Does the Bible Say About Professions?

Philemon 1:6 ESV / 7 helpful votes

And I pray that the sharing of your faith may become effective for the full knowledge of every good thing that is in us for the sake of Christ.

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 6 helpful votes

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

James 1:1-27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings. Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. ...

Ephesians 4:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers,

Romans 6:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Hosea 8:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

To me they cry, “My God, we—Israel—know you.”

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

1 Corinthians 11:1-34 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ. Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you. But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God. Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head, but every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same as if her head were shaven. ...

Romans 10:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

John 14:6 ESV / 3 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.

Proverbs 20:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Many a man proclaims his own steadfast love, but a faithful man who can find?

Genesis 1:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Revelation 18:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the light of a lamp will shine in you no more, and the voice of bridegroom and bride will be heard in you no more, for your merchants were the great ones of the earth, and all nations were deceived by your sorcery.

1 Timothy 2:11-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet.

Philippians 4:2-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I entreat Euodia and I entreat Syntyche to agree in the Lord. Yes, I ask you also, true companion, help these women, who have labored side by side with me in the gospel together with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. ...

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Romans 6:3-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

Romans 3:1-9:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision? Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God. What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God? By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written, “That you may be justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged.” But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.) ...

Matthew 16:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

2 Peter 2:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment;

Ecclesiastes 1:1-18 ESV / 1 helpful vote

The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun? A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever. The sun rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises. ...

25 Bible Verses about Professions

Philemon 1:6 ESV / 7 helpful votes

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 John 1:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

James 1:1-27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 6:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Hosea 8:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:1-34 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 10:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 20:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Genesis 1:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Revelation 18:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:11-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Philippians 4:2-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 6:3-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 3:1-9:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 16:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Peter 2:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Ecclesiastes 1:1-18 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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25 Bible Verses about Professions

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Philemon 1:6 ESV / 7 helpful votes

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 John 1:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

James 1:1-27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 6:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Hosea 8:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:1-34 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 10:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 20:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Genesis 1:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Revelation 18:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:11-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Philippians 4:2-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 6:3-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 3:1-9:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 16:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Peter 2:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Ecclesiastes 1:1-18 ESV / 1 helpful vote