44 Bible Verses about Success And Hard Work

The ideas of the diligent tend only to abundance. But of the one who is hasty it leads to poverty.

In all labor there is profit: but idle chatter leads only to destitution.

I have learned why people work so hard to succeed. It is because they envy the things their neighbors have. But it is vanity! It is like chasing the wind.

One hand full of quietness is better than two hands full of trouble and striving after wind.

He becomes poor who deals with a lazy hand. The hand of the diligent makes rich.

If the ax is dull, and he does not whet the edge, he must put forth more effort. Wisdom helps him to succeed.

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

But you must remain strong and not become discouraged. Your actions will be rewarded.

Whatever 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 are going.

The hand of the diligent will bear rule. The lazy will be under forced labor.

There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink, and delight in his work. This also I saw 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. In the evening do not withhold your hand. For you do not know which shall prosper. Whether they both will alike be good.

I hated all the work I had done under the sun, because I would leave it behind for the man who comes after me.

He keeps shrewd (crafty) (cunning) people from carrying out their plans so that they cannot do anything successfully.

It is vain to work hard for the food you eat by getting up early and going to bed late. Jehovah gives food to those he loves while they sleep.

The blessing of Jehovah makes rich and he adds no grief to it.

Strive to go in through the narrow door. Many people will try to go in and will not be able.

Now he who plants and he who waters are one [in purpose] and every man will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

What does a man get for all his work, and for the desire of his heart with which he has done his work under the sun?

Jehovah was with Joseph. Joseph became a successful man. He worked in the house of his Egyptian master.

Because there is a man whose work has been done with wisdom, with knowledge, and with an expert hand. But one who has done nothing for it will have it for his heritage. This also is vanity and a great evil.

Work for the good of the city where I have taken you as captives. Pray to Jehovah for that city. When it prospers, you will also prosper.

Good understanding gives favor. The way of transgressors is hard.

They made their lives bitter with backbreaking work in mortar and bricks and every kind of work in the fields. All the jobs the Egyptians gave them were brutally hard work.

You will certainly eat what your own hands have provided. Blessings to you! May things go well for you!

Dreams come with many efforts, trials and concerns. Fools speak with too many words.

I looked at all the works my hands accomplished. I saw everything I had worked to do. I saw that all was vanity and grasping for the wind. It was to no purpose for there was no profit under the sun.

Know that the testing of your faith produces patience (endurance).

I said: I have toiled in vain. I have spent my energy for nothing and vanity. Yet, to be sure, the justice due to me is with Jehovah. My reward is with my God.

I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Other men labored and you entered into their labors.

Simon answered, Master we worked all night and caught nothing. At your word I will let down the nets.

You have crowned the year with your bounty. Your paths drip with fatness.

Hezekiah incorporated Moses' teachings and commands into worship and dedicated his life to serving God. Whatever he did for the worship in God's Temple, he did wholeheartedly, and he succeeded.

When that day comes, Jehovah will give you relief from your pain and suffering, from the hard slavery you were forced to do.

Let patience have its perfect work, that you may be mature, complete, and lacking in nothing.

But if it is from God, you cannot overthrow it; otherwise you may find yourselves fighting against God.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children. The wealth of the sinner is preserved for the righteous.

Obey those who lead you. Submit to them: for they watch in behalf of your lives and must account for this. Obey them that their work may be a joy and not a burden; that would be without gain for you.

Jehovah said: If they become one people speaking the same language, nothing will be impossible for them. They have begun to do this.

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

Yet, I will make you as stubborn and as hardheaded as they are.

When you reap your harvest in your field and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it. It shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow, in order that Jehovah your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

The way of righteousness is life. In its pathway there is no death.