44 Bible Verses about Success And Hard Work

The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.

In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.

Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man's envy of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Better is a handful of quietness than two hands full of toil and a striving after wind.

A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

If the iron is blunt, and one does not sharpen the edge, he must use more strength, but wisdom helps one to succeed.

Do you see a man skillful in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men.

But you, take courage! Do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded."

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might,for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.

The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor.

There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God,

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

In the morning sow your seed, and at evening withhold not your hand, for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good.

I hated all my toil in which I toil under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who will come after me,

He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success.

It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep.

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

"Strive to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.

He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor.

What has a man from all the toil and striving of heart with which he toils beneath the sun?

The LORD was with Joseph, and he became a successful man, and he was in the house of his Egyptian master.

because sometimes a person who has toiled with wisdom and knowledge and skill must leave everything to be enjoyed by someone who did not toil for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.

But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the LORD on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare.

Good sense wins favor, but the way of the treacherous is their ruin.

and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field. In all their work they ruthlessly made them work as slaves.

You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.

For a dream comes with much business, and a fool's voice with many words.

Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.

for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.

But I said, "I have labored in vain; I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely my right is with the LORD, and my recompense with my God."

I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor."

And Simon answered, "Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets."

You crown the year with your bounty; your wagon tracks overflow with abundance.

And every work that he undertook in the service of the house of God and in accordance with the law and the commandments, seeking his God, he did with all his heart, and prospered.

When the LORD has given you rest from your pain and turmoil and the hard service with which you were made to serve,

And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

but if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them. You might even be found opposing God!" So they took his advice,

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

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.

And the LORD said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.

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

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

"When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

In the path of righteousness is life, and in its pathway there is no death.