44 Bible Verses about Success And Hard Work

The purposes of the diligent are only to advantage, And of every hasty one, only to want.

In all labour there is advantage, And a thing of the lips is only to want.

And I have seen all the labour, and all the benefit of the work, because for it a man is the envy of his neighbour. Even this is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Better is a handful with quietness, than two handfuls with labour and vexation of spirit.'

Poor is he who is working -- a slothful hand, And the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

If the iron hath been blunt, And he the face hath not sharpened, Then doth he increase strength, And wisdom is advantageous to make right.

Hast thou seen a man speedy in his business? Before kings he doth station himself, He stations not himself before obscure men!

and ye, be ye strong, and let not your hands be feeble, for there is a reward for your work.'

All that thy hand findeth to do, with thy power do, for there is no work, and device, and knowledge, and wisdom in Sheol whither thou art going.

The hand of the diligent ruleth, And slothfulness becometh tributary.

There is nothing good in a man who eateth, and hath drunk, and hath shewn his soul good in his labour. This also I have seen that it is from the hand of God.

The two are better than the one, in that they have a good reward by their labour.

In the morning sow thy seed, And at even withdraw not thy hand, For thou knowest not which is right, this or that, Or whether both of them alike are good.

And I have hated all my labour that I labour at under the sun, because I leave it to a man who is after me.

Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom.

Vain for you who are rising early, Who delay sitting, eating the bread of griefs, So He giveth to His beloved one sleep.

The blessing of Jehovah -- it maketh rich, And He addeth no grief with it.

'Be striving to go in through the straight gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to go in, and shall not be able;

and he who is planting and he who is watering are one, and each his own reward shall receive, according to his own labour,

For what hath been to a man by all his labour, and by the thought of his heart that he laboured at under the sun?

And Jehovah is with Joseph, and he is a prosperous man, and he is in the house of his lord the Egyptian,

For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity, and to a man who hath not laboured therein he giveth it -- his portion! Even this is vanity and a great evil.

And seek the peace of the city whither I have removed you, and pray for it unto Jehovah, for in its peace ye have peace.

Good understanding giveth grace, And the way of the treacherous is hard.

and make their lives bitter in hard service, in clay, and in brick, and in every kind of service in the field; all their service in which they have served is with rigour.

The labour of thy hands thou surely eatest, Happy art thou, and good is to thee.

For the dream hath come by abundance of business, and the voice of a fool by abundance of words.

and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole is vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!

knowing that the proof of your faith doth work endurance,

And I said, 'For a vain thing I laboured, For emptiness and vanity my power I consumed, But my judgment is with Jehovah, And my wage with my God.

I sent you to reap that on which ye have not laboured; others laboured, and ye into their labour have entered.

and Simon answering said to him, 'Master, through the whole night, having laboured, we have taken nothing, but at thy saying I will let down the net.'

Thou hast crowned the year of Thy goodness, And Thy paths drop fatness.

and in every work that he hath begun for the service of the house of God, and for the law, and for the command, to seek to his God, with all his heart he hath wrought and prospered.

And it hath come to pass, In the day of Jehovah's giving rest to thee, From thy grief, and from thy trouble, And from the sharp bondage, That hath been served upon thee,

and let the endurance have a perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire -- in nothing lacking;

and if it be of God, ye are not able to overthrow it, lest perhaps also ye be found fighting against God.'

A good man causeth sons' sons to inherit, And laid up for the righteous is the sinner's wealth.

Be obedient to those leading you, and be subject, for these do watch for your souls, as about to give account, that with joy they may do this, and not sighing, for this is unprofitable to you.

and Jehovah saith, 'Lo, the people is one, and one pronunciation is to them all, and this it hath dreamed of doing; and now, nothing is restrained from them of that which they have purposed to do.

The well-leading elders of double honour let them be counted worthy, especially those labouring in word and teaching,

'Lo, I have made thy face strong against their face, and thy forehead strong against their forehead.

'When thou reapest thy harvest in thy field, and hast forgotten a sheaf in a field, thou dost not turn back to take it; to the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, it is; so that Jehovah thy God doth bless thee in all the work of thy hands.

In the path of righteousness is life, And in the way of that path is no death!