The best Bible verses for success (MSG) include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for success (MSG), each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
"Disaster entraps sinners, but God-loyal people get a good life."Proverbs 13:21
"Let the mountains give exuberant witness; shape the hills with the contours of right living."Psalms 72:3
"I want to see your chosen succeed, celebrate with your celebrating nation, join the Hallelujahs of your pride and joy!"Psalms 106:5
"You worked hard and deserve all you've got coming. Enjoy the blessing! Revel in the goodness!"Psalms 128:2
"Say a couple have scores of children and live a long, long life but never enjoy themselves—even though they end up with a big funeral! I'd say that a stillborn baby gets the better deal."Ecclesiastes 6:3
"And Jerusalem will be a center of joy and praise and glory for all the countries on earth. They'll get reports on all the good I'm doing for her. They'll be in awe of the blessings I am pouring on her."Jeremiah 33:9
""Go and speak with Ebed-melek the Ethiopian. Tell him, God-of-the-Angel-Armies, the God of Israel, says, Listen carefully: I will do exactly what I said I would do to this city—bad news, not good news. When it happens, you will be there to see it."Jeremiah 39:16
Translations differ in what they optimise for. Some follow the original wording closely at the cost of a natural English sentence; others read smoothly and make interpretive choices to get there. Neither is wrong, but they produce noticeably different verses.
Each of the 15 verses below is shown in the translation you asked for, and every verse links to a page comparing all six side by side — which is usually the fastest way to see where the translators disagreed.
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The most-cited Bible verses for success (MSG) are Proverbs 13:21, Proverbs 21:21, Psalms 25:13. This page collects 15 of them, each with its full passage, context and the text in six translations.
Read the verse in its surrounding passage before you use it — a verse that fits in isolation sometimes says something different in context. Compare two translations where the wording is unclear, and pick for the person who will read it rather than for the theme.
Scripture returns to success (MSG) across both testaments rather than settling it in one passage, which is why the verses on this page do not all say the same thing. Read together they give a fuller answer than any single verse does.
There is no single best translation. The NIV and NLT read most naturally and communicate well to someone outside the church; the ESV and NASB stay closer to the original wording; the KJV carries the phrasing most people recognise. Every verse here links to a page showing all six side by side.
More than any page can list. This one carries the 15 that are most often turned to for success (MSG), chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.