44 Bible Verses about Success And Hard Work

The thoughts of the diligent lead only to plenty; but of everyone that is hasty, only to want.

In all labor there is profit: but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

Again, I considered all toil, and every skillful work, that for this a man is envied by his neighbor. This is also vanity and grasping after the wind.

Better is a handful with quietness, than both hands full with toil and grasping for the wind.

He becomes poor who has a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

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

See you a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before obscure men.

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

Whatsoever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, where you go.

The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be put to forced labor.

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 labor. This also I saw, that it was 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 withhold not your hand: for you know not which shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both alike shall be good.

Yea, I hated all my labor in which I had toiled under the sun: because I must leave it unto the man that shall be after me.

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

It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he gives his beloved sleep.

The blessing of the LORD, it 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: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labor.

For what has man for all his labor, and for the striving of his heart, with which he has labored under the sun?

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

For there is a man whose labor is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that has not labored in it shall he leave it for his portion. 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 its peace shall you have peace.

Good understanding gives favor: but the way of transgressors is hard.

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

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

For a dream comes through much business; and a fool's voice is known by a multitude of words.

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had made, and on the labor that I had expended on it: and, behold, all was vanity and like grasping the wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

Knowing this, that the trying of your faith works patience.

Then I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing, and in vain: yet surely my due justice is with the LORD, and my recompense with my God.

I sent you to reap that on which you bestowed no labor: other men labored, and you are entered into their labors.

And Simon answering said unto him, Teacher, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at your word I will let down the net.

You crown the year with your goodness; and your paths drop fatness.

And 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.

And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give you rest from your sorrow, and from your fear, and from the hard bondage in which you were made to serve.

But let patience have her perfect work, that you may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.

But if it be of God, you cannot overthrow it; lest perhaps you be found even to fight against God.

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

Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they 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 have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially they who labor in the word and doctrine.

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

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

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