44 Bible Verses about Success And Hard Work

The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.

In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man's neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

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

He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.

If the axe is blunt, and one doesn't sharpen the edge, then he must use more strength; but skill brings success.

Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings. He won't serve obscure men.

But you be strong, and don't let your hands be slack; for your work shall be rewarded."

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.

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 your seed, and in the evening don't withhold your hand; for you don't know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be equally good.

I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.

He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can't perform their enterprise.

It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil; for he gives sleep to his loved ones.

Yahweh's blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.

"Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.

Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward 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?

Yahweh was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master the Egyptian.

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

Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to Yahweh for it; for in its peace you shall have peace.

Good understanding wins favor; but the way of the unfaithful is hard.

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

For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.

For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool's speech with a multitude of words.

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

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

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 Yahweh, and my reward with my God."

I sent you to reap that for which you haven't labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor."

Simon answered him, "Master, we worked all night, and took nothing; but at your word I will let down the net."

You crown the year with your bounty. Your carts overflow with abundance.

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.

It will happen in the day that Yahweh will give you rest from your sorrow, from your trouble, and from the hard service in which you were made to serve,

Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!"

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

Yahweh said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.

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

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

When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgot a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

In the way of righteousness is life; in its path there is no death.