44 Bible Verses about Success And Hard Work

The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; But every one that is hasty hasteth only to want.

In all labor there is profit; But the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.

Then I saw all labor and every skilful work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and striving after wind.

He becometh poor that worketh with a slack hand; But the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

If the iron be blunt, and one do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.

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

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

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, whither thou goest.

The hand of the diligent shall bear rule; But the slothful shall be put under taskwork.

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.

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.

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

And I hated all my labor wherein I labored under the sun, seeing that I must leave it unto the man that shall be after me.

He frustrateth 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 giveth unto his beloved sleep.

The blessing of Jehovah, it maketh rich; And he addeth no sorrow therewith.

Strive to enter in by the narrow door: for many, I say unto you, shall seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: but each shall receive his own reward according to his own labor.

For what hath a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, wherein he laboreth under the sun?

And Jehovah was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; 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 skilfulness; yet to a man that hath not labored therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.

And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray unto Jehovah for it; for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.

Good understanding giveth 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, wherein they made them serve with rigor.

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

For a dream cometh 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 proving of your faith worketh patience.

But I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and vanity; yet surely the justice due to me is with Jehovah, and my recompense with my God.

I sent you to reap that whereon ye have not labored: others have labored, and ye are entered into their labor.

And Simon answered and said, Master, we toiled all night, and took nothing: but at thy word I will let down the nets.

Thou crownest 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 Jehovah shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy trouble, and from the hard service wherein thou wast made to serve,

And let patience have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.

but if it is of God, ye will not be able to overthrow them; lest haply ye be found even to be fighting against God.

A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children; And the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous.

Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit to them : for they watch in behalf of your souls, as they that shall give account; that they may do this with joy, and not with grief: for this were unprofitable for you.

And Jehovah 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 withholden from them, which they purpose to do.

Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, 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 reapest thy harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hands.

In the way of righteousness is life; And in the pathway thereof there is no death.