Bible Verses about “choosing a career”
The Bible contains 46 verses about choosing a career across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.”
“Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.”
“In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.”
“¶ Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:”
“Knowing [this], that the trying of your faith worketh patience.”
“¶ My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;”
“But let patience have [her] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.”
“Blessed [is] the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.”
“If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all [men] liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.”
“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.”
“For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.”
“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.”
“If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion [is] vain.”
“But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.”
“But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.”
“But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.”
“Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.”
“Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.”
“But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth [therein], he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.”
“For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:”
“For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.”
“¶ Blessed [is] the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.”
“¶ Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.”
“For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.”
“A double minded man [is] unstable in all his ways.”
“For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.”
“¶ Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:”
“But his delight [is] in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.”
“Do not err, my beloved brethren.”
“Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.”
“Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.”
“But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.”
“Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:”
“For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.”
“¶ James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.”
“This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.”
“And ye shall seek me, and find [me], when ye shall search for me with all your heart.”
“I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.”
“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.”
“John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.”
“¶ [There are] many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.”
“Blessed [is] the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.”
“Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.”
“¶ Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.”
“¶ A man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.”
“And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.”