44 Bible Verses about Success And Hard Work

The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenty; but the thoughts of everyone who is hasty only to poverty.

In all labor there is gain, but the talk of the lips tends only to poverty.

Again, I considered all labor, and every right work, that for this a man is envied by his neighbor. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

Better is a hand filled with rest than two fists with travail and vexation of spirit.

He who deals with a lazy hand becomes poor; but the hand of the hard worker makes rich.

If the iron is blunt, and he does not whet the edge, then he must put more strength to it. But wisdom is profitable to direct.

Do you see a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before unknown men.

But you be strong and do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded.

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

The hand of the hard worker shall bear rule, but the lazy shall be under service.

Is it not good that he should eat and drink and make his soul see good in his labor? This I also 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 do not withhold your hand; for you do not know what shall be blessed, either this or that, or whether they both shall be fruitful in the same way.

Yes, I hated all my labor which I had done under the sun; that I must leave it to the man who shall be after me.

frustrating the plans of the crafty, nor did their hands do wisely.

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 Jehovah itself makes rich, and He adds no sorrow with it.

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

So he planting, and he watering, are one, and each one shall receive his own reward according to his own labor.

For what has man from all his labor, and from the troubling of his heart, in which he has labored under the sun?

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

When there is a man whose labor is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and with success; yet to a man who has not labored in it, he shall leave it for his share. This also is vanity and a great evil.

And seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be exiled, and pray to Jehovah for it. For in its peace you shall have peace.

Good understanding gives favor, but the way of traitors is ever flowing.

And they made their lives bitter with hard work in mortar and in bricks, and in all kinds of work in the field; all their work in which they made them do was with harshness.

For you shall surely eat the labor of your hands; you shall be happy, and all is well with you.

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

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit; and there is no profit under the sun.

knowing 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 judgment is with Jehovah, and My work with My God.

I sent you to reap that on which you bestowed no labor. Other men labored, and you have entered into their labor.

And answering, Simon said to Him, Master, we have toiled all the night and have taken nothing. Yet 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 be in the day that Jehovah shall give you rest from your sorrow, and from your fear, and from the hard bondage which was pressed on you,

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

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

A good man leaves an inheritance to his sons' sons, and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.

Yield to those leading you, and be submissive, for they watch for your souls, as those who must give account, that they may do it with joy and not with grief; for that is unprofitable for you.

And Jehovah said, Behold! The people is one and they all have one language. And this they begin to do. And now nothing which they have imagined to do will be restrained from them.

Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in Word and doctrine.

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

When you cut down your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to bring it. It shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow; so that Jehovah your God may bless you in all the work of your hand.

In the way of righteousness is life, and in that pathway there is no death.