As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:


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Job 14 6 Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
1 Peter 2 18 Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
Matthew 24 50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
Colossians 3 22 Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God;
Proverbs 30 22 For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;
Colossians 1 29 Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
Ecclesiastes 2 21 For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.
Philemon 1 16 Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?
Proverbs 14 35 The king's favour is toward a wise servant: but his wrath is against him that causeth shame.
Proverbs 17 2 A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.
Leviticus 25 40 But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile.
Isaiah 52 13 Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.
John 10 12 But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
Proverbs 16 26 He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.
Lamentations 5 8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
Matthew 24 46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
Matthew 10 10 Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.
Colossians 2 18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
Luke 12 47 And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.
Exodus 5 9 Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.
John 4 38 I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.
Psalms 104 23 Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.
John 13 16 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.
Leviticus 25 53 And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.
James 5 4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
Ephesians 6 5 Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;
John 9 4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
Matthew 20 1 For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.
Exodus 35 35 Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work.
Titus 2 9 Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again;
Ezekiel 16 31 In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;
Ecclesiastes 4 4 Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
Deuteronomy 15 18 It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.
2 Timothy 2 24 And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
Psalms 123 2 Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.
Deuteronomy 24 15 At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.
2 Samuel 19 36 Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?
Ecclesiastes 2 22 For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
Romans 4 4 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
Matthew 25 19 After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them.
Isaiah 32 2 And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
Ecclesiastes 2 19 And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.
Isaiah 41 25 I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.
Exodus 21 5 And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
1 Corinthians 7 22 For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant.
1 Kings 20 39 And as the king passed by, he cried unto the king: and he said, Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man unto me, and said, Keep this man: if by any means he be missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else thou shalt pay a talent of silver.
Ephesians 6 7 With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:
Proverbs 12 9 He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.
1 Corinthians 9 19 For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.