44 Bible Verses about Success And Hard Work

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Ecclesiastes 4:4

I have seen that every labor and every skill which is done is the result of rivalry between a man and his neighbor. This too is vanity and striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 10:10

If the axe is dull and he does not sharpen its edge, then he must exert more strength. Wisdom has the advantage of giving success.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might; for there is no activity or planning or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol where you are going.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink and tell himself that his labor is good. This also I have seen that it is from the hand of God.

Ecclesiastes 4:9

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

Ecclesiastes 11:6

Sow your seed in the morning and do not be idle in the evening, for you do not know whether morning or evening sowing will succeed, or whether both of them alike will be good.

Ecclesiastes 2:18

Thus I hated all the fruit of my labor for which I had labored under the sun, for I must leave it to the man who will come after me.

Job 5:12

“He frustrates the plotting of the shrewd,
So that their hands cannot attain success.

1 Corinthians 3:8

Now he who plants and he who waters are one; but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

Ecclesiastes 2:22

For what does a man get in all his labor and in his striving with which he labors under the sun?

Genesis 39:2

The Lord was with Joseph, so he became a successful man. And he was in the house of his master, the Egyptian.

Ecclesiastes 2:21

When there is a man who has labored with wisdom, knowledge and skill, then he gives his legacy to one who has not labored with them. This too is vanity and a great evil.

Proverbs 13:15

Good understanding produces favor,
But the way of the treacherous is hard.

Exodus 1:14

and they made their lives bitter with hard labor in mortar and bricks and at all kinds of labor in the field, all their labors which they rigorously imposed on them.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Thus I considered all my activities which my hands had done and the labor which I had exerted, and behold all was vanity and striving after wind and there was no profit under the sun.

Isaiah 49:4

But I said, “I have toiled in vain,
I have spent My strength for nothing and vanity;
Yet surely the justice due to Me is with the Lord,
And My reward with My God.”

John 4:38

I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored and you have entered into their labor.”

Luke 5:5

Simon answered and said, “Master, we worked hard all night and caught nothing, but I will do as You say and let down the nets.”

2 Chronicles 31:21

Every work which he began in the service of the house of God in law and in commandment, seeking his God, he did with all his heart and prospered.

Isaiah 14:3

And it will be in the day when the Lord gives you rest from your pain and turmoil and harsh service in which you have been enslaved,

Acts 5:39

but if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them; or else you may even be found fighting against God.”

Genesis 11:6

The Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have the same language. And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them.

Ezekiel 3:8

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

Deuteronomy 24:19

“When you reap your harvest in your field and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it; it shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow, in order that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

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