44 Bible Verses about Success And Hard Work

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Ecclesiastes 4:4

Then I examined all sorts of work, including all kinds of excellent achievements that create envy in others. This also is pointless and chasing after the wind.

Ecclesiastes 4:6

It's better to have one handful of tranquility than to have two handfuls of trouble and to chase after the wind.

Ecclesiastes 10:10

If someone's ax is blunt the edge isn't sharpened then more strength will be needed. Putting wisdom to work will bring success.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever the activity in which you engage, do it with all your ability, because there is no work, no planning, no learning, and no wisdom in the next world where you're going.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

The only worthwhile thing for a human being is to eat, drink, and enjoy life's goodness that he finds in what he accomplishes. This, I observed, is also from the hand of God himself,

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 don't stop working until evening, since you don't know which of your endeavors will do well, whether this one or that, or even if both will do equally well.

Ecclesiastes 2:18

Then I despised everything I had worked for on earth, that is, the things that I will leave to the person who will succeed me.

Job 5:12

He frustrates the plans of the crafty; so that what they work for never succeeds.

1 Corinthians 3:8

The one who plants and the one who waters have the same goal, and each will receive a reward for his own action.

Ecclesiastes 2:22

For what does a person gain from everything that he accomplishes and from his inner life struggles that he undergoes while working on earth?

Genesis 39:2

But the LORD was with Joseph. He became a very prosperous man while in the house of his Egyptian master,

Ecclesiastes 2:21

For sometimes people who strive to obtain wisdom, knowledge, and equity leave everything as an inheritance to a person who never worked for it. This, too, is pointless and greatly troublesome.

Proverbs 13:15

Good understanding produces grace, but the lifestyle of the treacherous never changes.

Exodus 1:14

making their lives bitter through hard labor with mortar, bricks, and all kinds of outdoor labor. They ruthlessly imposed all this work on them.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I examined all of my accomplishments that I had brought about by my own efforts, including the work that I had labored so hard to complete and it was all pointless, like chasing after the wind, and there was nothing to be gained on earth.

Isaiah 49:4

"I said: "I've labored for nothing. I've exhausted my strength on futility and on emptiness.' Yet surely my recompense is with the LORD, and my reward is with my God.

John 4:38

I have sent you to harvest what you have not worked for. Others have worked, and you have adopted their work as your own."

Luke 5:5

Simon answered, "Master, we have worked hard all night and caught nothing. But if you say so, I'll lower the nets."

2 Chronicles 31:21

Everything that Hezekiah began in the service of God's Temple was done according to the Law and to the commandments as he sought his God, worked with all of his heart, and became successful.

Isaiah 14:3

At the time, when the LORD gives you rest from your suffering, turmoil, and the cruel bondage which they forced you to serve,

Acts 5:39

However, if it's from God, you won't be able to stop them, and you may even discover that you are fighting against God!"

Genesis 11:6

The LORD said, "Look! They are one people with the same language for all of them, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. Nothing that they have a mind to do will be impossible for them!

Ezekiel 3:8

So pay attention! I'm going to make you just as obstinate and unyielding as they are.

Deuteronomy 24:19

"When you are reaping in the field, and you overlook a sheaf, don't return to get it. Let it remain for the foreigner, the orphan, or the widow, in order that the LORD your God may bless everything you undertake.

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