What Does the Bible Say About Finding A Job?

John 15:7 ESV / 207 helpful votes

If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

Philippians 4:19 ESV / 170 helpful votes

And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Proverbs 3:6 ESV / 130 helpful votes

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Psalm 90:17 ESV / 124 helpful votes

Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands upon us; yes, establish the work of our hands!

John 14:14 ESV / 103 helpful votes

If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.

James 1:1-27 ESV / 90 helpful votes

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings. Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. ...

Luke 11:9 ESV / 70 helpful votes

And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

Luke 18:1 ESV / 68 helpful votes

And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.

Mark 11:24 ESV / 58 helpful votes

Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Ecclesiastes 9:10 ESV / 58 helpful votes

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.

Ephesians 1:11 ESV / 51 helpful votes

In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,

John 14:13 ESV / 45 helpful votes

Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 44 helpful votes

Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

John 16:24 ESV / 42 helpful votes

Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 41 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Proverbs 21:1 ESV / 40 helpful votes

The king's heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he will.

Psalm 37:3-5 ESV / 34 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness. Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act.

Psalm 1:3 ESV / 33 helpful votes

He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.

Luke 12:32 ESV / 31 helpful votes

“Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

1 Chronicles 22:13 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Then you will prosper if you are careful to observe the statutes and the rules that the Lord commanded Moses for Israel. Be strong and courageous. Fear not; do not be dismayed.

Psalm 22:1-31 ESV / 25 helpful votes

To the choirmaster: according to The Doe of the Dawn. A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning? O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest. Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel. In you our fathers trusted; they trusted, and you delivered them. To you they cried and were rescued; in you they trusted and were not put to shame. ...

Exodus 12:36 ESV / 25 helpful votes

And the Lord had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. Thus they plundered the Egyptians.

Luke 12:31 ESV / 22 helpful votes

Instead, seek his kingdom, and these things will be added to you.

Matthew 7:11 ESV / 22 helpful votes

If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

Exodus 3:21 ESV / 22 helpful votes

And I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians; and when you go, you shall not go empty,

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 21 helpful votes

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 20 helpful votes

But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

Genesis 39:21 ESV / 20 helpful votes

But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him steadfast love and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.

Ephesians 4:28 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.

Luke 12:28 ESV / 19 helpful votes

But if God so clothes the grass, which is alive in the field today, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith!

Psalm 90:16 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Let your work be shown to your servants, and your glorious power to their children.

Psalm 37:25 ESV / 19 helpful votes

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging for bread.

2 Corinthians 9:6 ESV / 17 helpful votes

The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 17 helpful votes

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Mark 11:23 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.

1 John 2:27 ESV / 15 helpful votes

But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.

Luke 12:7 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Why, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows.

Luke 12:30 ESV / 14 helpful votes

For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need them.

2 Chronicles 26:5 ESV / 14 helpful votes

He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God, and as long as he sought the Lord, God made him prosper.

Matthew 6:32 ESV / 13 helpful votes

For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.

Psalm 84:11 ESV / 13 helpful votes

For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly.

Deuteronomy 29:9 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.

Luke 12:24 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds!

Matthew 9:29 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Then he touched their eyes, saying, “According to your faith be it done to you.”

Deuteronomy 6:4-9 ESV / 11 helpful votes

“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. ...

Exodus 11:3 ESV / 11 helpful votes

And the Lord gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover, the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants and in the sight of the people.

Psalm 24:1 ESV / 10 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein,

Job 1:1-22 ESV / 10 helpful votes

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil. There were born to him seven sons and three daughters. He possessed 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys, and very many servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the east. His sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one on his day, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually. ...

Proverbs 3:4 ESV / 9 helpful votes

So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man.

Psalm 115:12 ESV / 9 helpful votes

The Lord has remembered us; he will bless us; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron;

Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, ...

Psalm 104:23 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Man goes out to his work and to his labor until the evening.

Joshua 1:8 ESV / 8 helpful votes

This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

Genesis 2:15 ESV / 7 helpful votes

The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.

Romans 8:31 ESV / 6 helpful votes

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Proverbs 3:1-6:35 ESV / 6 helpful votes

My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. ...

Philemon 1:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And I pray that the sharing of your faith may become effective for the full knowledge of every good thing that is in us for the sake of Christ.

Luke 2:52 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man.

Philippians 4:1-23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Therefore, my brothers, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm thus in the Lord, my beloved. I entreat Euodia and I entreat Syntyche to agree in the Lord. Yes, I ask you also, true companion, help these women, who have labored side by side with me in the gospel together with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life. Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; ...

59 Bible Verses about Finding A Job