44 Bible Verses about Success And Hard Work

The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness, but of every one that is too hasty, only to want.

In all labour there is fruit, but to talk and not do, brings poverty.

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 a handful with rest than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.

He that deals with a slack hand becomes poor, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

If the iron is blunt, and he does not whet the edge, then he must put forth more strength, but the advantages of wisdom excel.

Seest thou a man diligent in his work? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before obscure men.

Be ye strong, therefore, and do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded.

Whatever thy hand finds to do, do it with all thy might, for there is no work nor device nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol, where thou goest.

The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the negligent shall be under tribute.

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. I also have seen that this is from the hand of God.

Two are better than one because they have a better reward for their labour.

In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand; for thou knowest not which shall prosper, either this or that or whether they both shall be equally good.

Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun, which I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.

He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

It is vain for you to rise up early, to come home late, to eat the bread of sorrows, because he shall give his beloved sleep.

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

Strive to enter in at the narrow gate; for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in and shall not be able.

Now he that plants and he that waters are one although each one shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.

For what does man have of all his labour and of the vexation of his heart in which he has laboured under the sun?

But the LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prospered man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.

That the man who worked with wisdom and with knowledge and with uprightness would have to leave his portion to a man that has not laboured therein. This also is vanity and a great evil.

And seek the peace of the city where 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 brings forth grace: but the way of transgressors is hard.

and they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, making mortar and brick and in all manner of service in the field; all their service, in which they made them serve, was with rigor.

When thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands; happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

For out of much preoccupation comes the dream, and the voice of the fool out of a multitude of words.

At last 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 that the proving of your faith works patience,

But I said, I have laboured in vain; I have spent my strength for nothing, and in vain; yet surely my judgment is before the LORD and my recompense with my God.

I have sent you to reap that upon which ye bestowed no labour; others laboured, and ye have 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.

Thou dost crown the year with thy goodness, and thy clouds distill fatness.

And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God and in the law and in the commandments, he sought God and he did it with all his heart and was 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 in which thou wast made to serve,

and the patience finishes the work, that ye may be perfect and entire, not lacking in anything.

but if it is of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest ye be found fighting against God.

A good man shall leave an inheritance to his children's children, and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.

Listen to your pastors, and do not resist them, for they watch for your souls as those 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 are one, and they all have one language; and they begin to do this, and now nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do.

Let the elders that govern well be counted worthy of double honour, especially those 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 doest reap thy harvest in thy field and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to bring it; it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, or for the widow, that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.

In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death.