44 Bible Verses about Success And Hard Work

The plans of the diligent lead only to plenty, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.

In all hard work there is profit, but merely talking about it only brings poverty.

Then I considered all the skillful work that is done: Surely it is nothing more than competition between one person and another. This also is profitless -- like chasing the wind.

Better is one handful with some rest than two hands full of toil and chasing the wind.

The one who is lazy becomes poor, but the one who works diligently becomes wealthy.

If an iron axhead is blunt and a workman does not sharpen its edge, he must exert a great deal of effort; so wisdom has the advantage of giving success.

Do you see a person skilled in his work? He will take his position before kings; he will not take his position before obscure people.

But as for you, be strong and don't get discouraged, for your work will be rewarded."

Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, because there is neither work nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom in the grave, the place where you will eventually go.

The diligent person will rule, but the slothful will become a slave.

There is nothing better for people than to eat and drink, and to find enjoyment in their work. I also perceived that this ability to find enjoyment comes from God.

Two people are better than one, because they can reap more benefit from their labor.

Sow your seed in the morning, and do not stop working until the evening; for you do not know which activity will succeed -- whether this one or that one, or whether both will prosper equally.

So I loathed all the fruit of my effort, for which I worked so hard on earth, because I must leave it behind in the hands of my successor.

He frustrates the plans of the crafty so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had planned!

It is vain for you to rise early, come home late, and work so hard for your food. Yes, he can provide for those whom he loves even when they sleep.

The blessing from the Lord makes a person rich, and he adds no sorrow to it.

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

The one who plants and the one who waters work as one, but each will receive his reward according to his work.

What does a man acquire from all his labor and from the anxiety that accompanies his toil on earth?

The Lord was with Joseph. He was successful and lived in the household of his Egyptian master.

For a man may do his work with wisdom, knowledge, and skill; however, he must hand over the fruit of his labor as an inheritance to someone else who did not work for it. This also is futile, and an awful injustice!

Work to see that the city where I sent you as exiles enjoys peace and prosperity. Pray to the Lord for it. For as it prospers you will prosper.'

Keen insight wins favor, but the conduct of the unfaithful is harsh.

They made their lives bitter by hard service with mortar and bricks and by all kinds of service in the fields. Every kind of service the Israelites were required to give was rigorous.

You will eat what you worked so hard to grow. You will be blessed and secure.

Just as dreams come when there are many cares, so the rash vow of a fool occurs when there are many words.

Yet when I reflected on everything I had accomplished and on all the effort that I had expended to accomplish it, I concluded: "All these achievements and possessions are ultimately profitless -- like chasing the wind! There is nothing gained from them on earth."

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

But I thought, "I have worked in vain; I have expended my energy for absolutely nothing." But the Lord will vindicate me; my God will reward me.

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

Simon answered, "Master, we worked hard all night and caught nothing! But at your word I will lower the nets."

You crown the year with your good blessings, and you leave abundance in your wake.

He wholeheartedly and successfully reinstituted service in God's temple and obedience to the law, in order to follow his God.

When the Lord gives you relief from your suffering and anxiety, and from the hard labor which you were made to perform,

And let endurance have its perfect effect, so that you will be perfect and complete, not deficient in anything.

but if it is from God, you will not be able to stop them, or you may even be found fighting against God." He convinced them,

A benevolent person leaves an inheritance for his grandchildren, but the wealth of a sinner is stored up for the righteous.

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls and will give an account for their work. Let them do this with joy and not with complaints, for this would be no advantage for you.

And the Lord said, "If as one people all sharing a common language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be beyond them.

Elders who provide effective leadership must be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard in speaking and teaching.

"I have made your face adamant to match their faces, and your forehead hard to match their foreheads.

Whenever you reap your harvest in your field and leave some unraked grain there, you must not return to get it; it should go to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow so that the Lord your God may bless all the work you do.

In the path of righteousness there is life, but another path leads to death.