bible verses about businessThere is no other books like the Bible. It is the book above all books and it contains precious truth and words of guidance for everyone and for all situations. Jesus who is the word that became flesh bless us with such mighty teachings found in the Holy scriptures. We have compiled for you 21 verses and passages about business and hard working. If you know any other, we will be happy to read it in the comment section below. 

  • Proverbs 6:6-8 Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
  • Exodus 20:8-11 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
  • Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
  • Colossians 3:17 – And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
  • Leviticus 25:14 And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour’s hand, ye shall not oppress one another
  • Colossians 3:23 And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;
  • Proverbs 13:4 – The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
  • 2 Thessalonians 3:7-13 For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you; Neither did we eat any man’s bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you. Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.  For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.  For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies. Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread. But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.
  • Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
  • Proverbs 14:23 – In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
  • Philippians 2:14-15 – Do all things without murmurings and disputings: That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
  • Proverbs 16:3 – Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.
  • 1 Corinthians 10:31 Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
  • 1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
  • Proverbs 12:24 – The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.
  • Luke 1:37 – For with God nothing shall be impossible.
  • Colossians 3:24 Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.
  • 1 Timothy 5:8 But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
  • Ephesians 6:7 With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:
  • Titus 2:7-8 In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity, Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.
  • 2 Timothy 2:6 – The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.
  • Galatians 6:9 – And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
  • John 9:4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
  • Matthew 20:6 And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?
  • Leviticus 19:35 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
  • Deuteronomy 15:10Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.
  • Proverbs 23:21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
  • Proverbs: 22:29 Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.
  • Proverbs: 14:23 In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
  • Genesis 2:15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.