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What does the Bible say about finding a job? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.

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7If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, then you may ask for whatever you will, and it shall be done for you.

17And may the splendor of the Lord our God be upon us. And so, direct the works of our hands over us; direct even the work of our hands.

24For this reason, I say to you, all things whatsoever that you ask for when praying: believe that you will receive them, and they will happen for you.

9And so I say to you: Ask, and it shall be given to you. Seek, and you shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you.

1James, servant of God and of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes of the dispersion, greetings. 2My brothers, when you have fallen into various trials, consider everything a joy, 3knowing that the proving of your faith exercises patience, 4and patience brings a work to perfection, so that you may be perfect and whole, deficient in nothing. 5But if anyone among you is in need of wisdom, let him petition God, who gives abundantly to all without reproach, and it shall be given to him. 6But he should ask with faith, doubting nothing. For he who doubts is like a wave on the ocean, which is moved about by the wind and carried away;

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11For I know the thoughts that I think over you, says the Lord: thoughts of peace and not of affliction, so that I may give you patience and an end.

24Until now, you have not requested anything in my name. Ask, and you shall receive, so that your joy may be full.

3Hope in the Lord and do good, and dwell in the land, and so you shall be pastured with its riches. 4Delight in the Lord, and he will grant to you the petitions of your heart. 5Reveal your way to the Lord, and hope in him, and he will accomplish it.

13And whatever you shall ask the Father in my name, that I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

10Whatever your hand is able to do, do it earnestly. For neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge will exist in death, toward which you are hurrying.