41 Bible Verses about Success And Hard Work

The thoughts of a diligent man [lead] only to abundance, but everyone who is hasty, only to want.

In all labor there is profit, but the talk of the lips [tends] only to poverty.

He who works with a slack hand becomes poor, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

If the iron be blunt, and he does not whet the edge, then he must increase strength. But wisdom is advantageous to make right.

See thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before obscure men.

But be ye strong, and let not your hands be slack. For your work shall be rewarded.

Whatever thy hand finds to do, do with thy might, for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where thou go.

The hand of the diligent shall bear rule, but the slothful shall be put under task work.

There is nothing better for a man [than] that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thy hand, for thou know not which shall prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.

And I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who shall be after me.

He frustrates the devices of the crafty so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

It is vain for you to rise up early, to take rest late, to eat the bread of toil, [for] so he gives sleep to his beloved.

The blessing of LORD, it makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.

Compete to enter in by the narrow gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.

Now he who plants and he who waters are one, but each man will receive his own payment according to his own labor.

For what has a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart in which he labors under the sun?

And LORD was with Joseph. And he was a man who succeeds. And he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.

For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, and with knowledge, and with skillfulness, yet he shall leave it to a man who has not labored in it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.

And seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to LORD for it, for in the peace of it ye shall have peace.

Good understanding gives favor, but the way of the transgressor is hard.

And they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, with which they made them serve with rigor.

For thou shall eat the labor of thy hands. Happy thou shall be, and it shall be well with thee.

For a dream comes with a multitude of business, and a fool's voice with a multitude of words.

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do, and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

knowing that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.

But I said, I have labored in vain. I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity. Yet surely the justice [due] to me is with LORD, and my recompense with my God.

I sent you to reap what ye have not labored. Others have labored, and ye have entered into their labor.

And having answered, Simon said to him, Master, having toiled through the whole night, we took nothing, but at thy saying, I will let down the net.

Thou crown the year with thy goodness, and thy paths drop fatness.

And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.

And it shall come to pass in the day that LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy trouble, and from the hard service in which thou were made to serve,

And let perseverance have a perfect work, so that ye may be perfect and complete, falling short in nothing.

but if it is from God, ye cannot overthrow it, and perhaps ye may be found to be fighting against God.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his son's sons, and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous.

Have confidence in those who lead you, and yield yourselves, for they watch for your souls as men who will render account, so that they may do this with joy, and not groaning, for this is unprofitable for you.

And LORD said, Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. And now nothing will be withheld from them, which they propose to do.

Let the elders who rule well be regarded worthy of double compensation, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

Behold, I have made thy face hard against their faces, and thy forehead hard against their foreheads.

When thou reap thy harvest in thy field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, thou shall not go again to fetch it. It shall be for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow, that LORD thy God may bless thee in all th

Life is in the way of righteousness, and in the pathway thereof there is no death.