44 Bible Verses about Success And Hard Work

The plans of the diligent only [lead] to abundance, but all who are hasty, only to want.

In all toil, there is profit, but the {talk} of lips [leads] only to poverty.

I also realized that all [of the] toil and all [of] the skillful work that is done--it [is] envy between one man and {another}. This also [is] vanity and chasing wind!

Better [is] one handful with peace than two fists full with toil and chasing wind.

A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent enriches.

If the ax is blunt but one does not sharpen its edge, {he must exert more effort}, but the advantage of wisdom [is] it brings success.

A man who is skillful in his work, you shall see: before kings, he will serve; he will not serve before the commoners.

But as for you, be strong and let not your hands be weak, for there is reward for your labor."

Whatever your hand finds to do--do [it] with [all] your might; for in Sheol--where you are going--no one works, plans, knows, or thinks about anything.

The hand of the diligent ones will rule, but the lazy will belong to forced labor.

There is nothing better for a person than to eat and drink and {find delight} in his toil. For I also realized that this [is] from the hand of God!

Two [are] better than the one, for they enjoy a better reward for their toil.

Sow your seed in the morning, and do not let your hands rest in the evening, for you do not know what will prosper-- whether this or that, or whether both of them alike will succeed.

So I hated all my toil with which I have toiled under the sun, for I must leave it behind to someone who will be after me.

[He] is frustrating [the] devices of [the] crafty, and their hands do not achieve success.

[It is] in vain for you who rise early [and] sit late, eating the bread of anxious toil, [when] thus he provides for his beloved in [his] sleep.

The blessing of Yahweh makes [one] rich, and he does not increase sorrow with it.

"Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able to,

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

For what does a person receive for all his toil and in the longing of his heart with which he toils under the sun?

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

For although a person may toil with great wisdom and skill, he must leave his reward to someone who has not toiled for it. This also [is] vanity and a great calamity.

And seek the prosperity of the city where I have deported you, and pray on behalf of it to Yahweh, for in its prosperity you will have prosperity.'

Good sense grants favor, but the way of the faithless is coarse.

And they made their lives bitter with hard work with mortar and with bricks and with all [sorts] of work in the field--with all their work in which they ruthlessly enslaved them.

You will indeed eat of the labor of your hands; you [will be] happy and [it will be] well with you.

For a dream comes with many cares, and the voice of a fool with many words.

Yet when I considered all the effort which I expended and the toil with which I toiled to do, then behold, "Everything [is] vanity and chasing wind! There is nothing profitable under the sun!"

[because you] know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

But I myself said, "I have labored in vain; I have used up my strength for nothing and vanity! Nevertheless, my justice [is] with Yahweh, and my reward [is] with my God."

I sent you to reap what you did not work for; others have worked, and you have entered into their work."

And Simon answered [and] said, "Master, [although we] worked hard through the whole night, we caught nothing. But at your word I will let down the nets."

You crown the year with your {bounty}, and your wagon paths drip with {richness}.

And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God or with respect to the law and the commandment to seek his God, he did with all his heart, and he prospered.

And it shall happen on the day Yahweh gives you rest from your pain and turmoil and hard labor which {you had to perform},

And let endurance have [its] perfect effect, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking in nothing.

But if it is from God, you will not be able to overthrow them, lest you even be found fighting against God." So they were persuaded by him.

He who is good will leave an inheritance to {his grandchildren}, and stored up for the righteous [is] the wealth of a sinner.

Obey your leaders and submit [to them], for they keep watch over your souls as those who will give an account, so that they can do this with joy and not [with] groaning, for this [would be] unprofitable for you.

And Yahweh said, "Behold, {they are one people with one language}, and {this is only the beginning of what they will do}. So now nothing that they intend to do will be impossible for them.

The elders who lead well must be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor by speaking and teaching.

[But] look, I have made your face hard {against} their faces and your forehead hard {against} their forehead.

"When you reap your harvest in your field and you forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not return to get it, for it shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow, so that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

On the road of righteousness is life, and [on] the way of the path, [may there be] no death.