44 Bible Verses about Success And Hard Work
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The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.
In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
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.
Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
If the iron be blunt, and he 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.
Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: 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 the grave, whither thou goest.
There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.
Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.
For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
And the LORD 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 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.
And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.
Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard.
And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.
Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God.
I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.
And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net.
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 the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,
But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.
Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.
When thou cuttest down thine 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 stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.
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