Proverbs 13:23

Proverbs 13:23
There is much food in the ploughed land of the poor; but it is taken away by wrongdoing.

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Genesis 1:29
And God said, See, I have given you every plant producing seed, on the face of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit producing seed: they will be for your food:

Genesis 1:30
And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the air and every living thing moving on the face of the earth I have given every green plant for food: and it was so.

Genesis 3:17
And to Adam he said, Because you gave ear to the voice of your wife and took of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take, the earth is cursed on your account; in pain you will get your food from it all your life.

Genesis 3:18
Thorns and waste plants will come up, and the plants of the field will be your food;

Psalms 104:14
He makes the grass come up for the cattle, and plants for the use of man; so that bread may come out of the earth;

Psalms 104:15
And wine to make glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face shining, and bread giving strength to his heart.

Psalms 115:16
The heavens are the Lord's; but the earth he has given to the children of men.

Jeremiah 4:3
For this is what the Lord says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem: Get your unworked land ploughed up, do not put in your seeds among thorns.

John 15:1
I am the true vine and my Father is the gardener.

1 Corinthians 3:9
For we are workers with God: you are God's planting, God's building.

Hebrews 6:7
For a land, drinking in the frequent rain and producing good plants for those for whom it is worked, has a blessing from God:

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Genesis 19:15
And when morning came, the angels did all in their power to make Lot go, saying, Get up quickly and take your wife and your two daughters who are here, and go, for fear that you come to destruction in the punishment of the town.

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1 Samuel 27:1
And David said to himself, Some day death will come to me by the hand of Saul: the only thing for me to do is to get away into the land of the Philistines; then Saul will give up hope of taking me in any part of the land of Israel: and so I may be able to get away from him.

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Proverbs 8:21
So that I may give my lovers wealth for their heritage, making their store-houses full.

Proverbs 20:21
A heritage may be got quickly at first, but the end of it will not be a blessing.

2 Corinthians 6:10
As full of sorrow, but ever glad; as poor, but giving wealth to others; as having nothing, but still having all things.

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Proverbs 6:6
Go to the ant, you hater of work; give thought to her ways and be wise:

Proverbs 6:7
Having no chief, overseer, or ruler,

Proverbs 6:8
She gets her meat in the summer, storing up food at the time of the grain-cutting.

Proverbs 6:9
How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep?

Proverbs 6:10
A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:

Proverbs 10:4
He who is slow in his work becomes poor, but the hand of the ready worker gets in wealth.

Proverbs 11:5
The righteousness of the good man will make his way straight, but the sin of the evil-doer will be the cause of his fall.

Proverbs 11:6
The righteousness of the upright will be their salvation, but the false will themselves be taken in their evil designs.

Proverbs 13:4
The hater of work does not get his desires, but the soul of the hard workers will be made fat.

Ecclesiastes 8:5
Whoever keeps the law will come to no evil: and a wise man's heart has knowledge of time and of decision.

Ecclesiastes 8:6
For every purpose there is a time and a decision, because the sorrow of man is great in him.

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Proverbs 14:20
The poor man is hated even by his neighbour, but the man of wealth has numbers of friends.

Proverbs 17:5
Whoever makes sport of the poor puts shame on his Maker; and he who is glad because of trouble will not go free from punishment.

Proverbs 18:23
The poor man makes requests for grace, but the man of wealth gives a rough answer.

Proverbs 19:1
Better is the poor man whose ways are upright, than the man of wealth whose ways are twisted.

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Proverbs 14:23
In all hard work there is profit, but talk only makes a man poor.

Ephesians 4:28
Let him who was a thief be so no longer, but let him do good work with his hands, so that he may have something to give to him who is in need.

1 Thessalonians 4:11
And that you may take pride in being quiet and doing your business, working with your hands as we gave you orders;

1 Thessalonians 4:12
That you may be respected by those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

2 Thessalonians 3:8
And we did not take food from any man for nothing, but were working hard night and day not to be a trouble to any of you:

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Proverbs 20:6
Most men make no secret of their kind acts: but where is a man of good faith to be seen?

Ecclesiastes 1:8
All things are full of weariness; man may not give their story: the eye has never enough of its seeing, or the ear of its hearing.

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Proverbs 27:18
Whoever keeps a fig-tree will have its fruit; and the servant waiting on his master will be honoured.

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Genesis 41:27
The seven thin and poor-looking cows who came up after them are seven years; and the seven heads of grain, dry and wasted by the east wind, are seven years when there will be no food.

Genesis 45:6
For these two years have been years of need, and there are still five more years to come in which there will be no ploughing or cutting of grain.

Genesis 47:23
Then Joseph said to the people, I have made you and your land this day the property of Pharaoh; here is seed for you to put in your fields.

Psalms 41:1
To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. Happy is the man who gives thought to the poor; the Lord will be his saviour in the time of trouble.

Psalms 107:36
And there he gives the poor a resting-place, so that they may make themselves a town;

Psalms 107:37
And put seed in the fields and make vine-gardens, to give them fruit.

Proverbs 11:24
A man may give freely, and still his wealth will be increased; and another may keep back more than is right, but only comes to be in need.

Proverbs 11:25
He who gives blessing will be made fat, but the curser will himself be cursed.

Proverbs 19:17
He who has pity on the poor gives to the Lord, and the Lord will give him his reward.

Ecclesiastes 11:6
In the morning put your seed into the earth, and till the evening let not your hand be at rest; because you are not certain which will do well, this or that--or if the two will be equally good.

Isaiah 28:24
Is the ploughman for ever ploughing? does he not get the earth ready and broken up for the seed?

Isaiah 28:25
When the face of the earth has been levelled, does he not put in the different sorts of seed, and the grain in lines, and the barley in its place, and the spelt at the edge?

Isaiah 55:10
For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and does not go back again, but gives water to the earth, and makes it fertile, giving seed to the planter, and bread for food;

Matthew 24:45
Who is the true and wise servant, whom his lord has put over those in his house, to give them their food at the right time?

2 Corinthians 9:10
And he who gives seed for putting into the field and bread for food, will take care of the growth of your seed, at the same time increasing the fruits of your righteousness;

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Jeremiah 8:7
Truly, the stork in the heavens is conscious of her fixed times; the dove and the swallow and the crane keep to the times of their coming; but my people have no knowledge of the law of the Lord.

Jeremiah 8:8
How is it that you say, We are wise and the law of the Lord is with us? But see, the false pen of the scribes has made it false.

Jeremiah 8:9
The wise men are shamed, they are overcome with fear and taken: see, they have given up the word of the Lord; and what use is their wisdom to them?

Jeremiah 8:10
So I will give their wives to others, and their fields to those who will take them for themselves: for everyone, from the least to the greatest, is given up to getting money; from the priest even to the prophet, everyone is false.

Hosea 4:6
Destruction has overtaken my people because they have no knowledge; because you have given up knowledge, I will give you up, so that you will be no priest to me, because you have not kept in mind the law of your God, I will not keep your children in my memory.

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Jeremiah 40:10
As for me, I will be living in Mizpah as your representative before the Chaldaeans who come to us: but you are to get in your wine and summer fruits and oil and put them in your vessels, and make living-places for yourselves in the towns which you have taken.

Jeremiah 40:11
In the same way, when all the Jews who were in Moab and among the children of Ammon and in Edom and in all the countries, had news that the king of Babylon had let Judah keep some of its people and that he had put over them Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan;

Jeremiah 40:12
Then all the Jews came back from all the places to which they had gone in flight, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, to Mizpah, and got in a great store of wine and summer fruit.

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Daniel 5:10
The queen, because of the words of the king and his lords, came into the house of the feast: the queen made answer and said, O King, have life for ever; do not be troubled by your thoughts or let the colour go from your face:

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1 Corinthians 9:9
For it says in the law of Moses, It is not right to keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it. Is it for the oxen that God is giving orders?

1 Corinthians 9:10
Or has he us in mind? Yes, it was said for us; because it is right for the ploughman to do his ploughing in hope, and for him who is crushing the grain to do his work hoping for a part in the fruits of it.

1 Corinthians 9:11
If we have been planting the things of the Spirit for you, does it seem a great thing for you to give us a part in your things of this world?

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Proverbs 12:14
From the fruit of his mouth will a man have good food in full measure, and the work of a man's hands will be rewarded.

Proverbs 13:21
Evil will overtake sinners, but the upright will be rewarded with good.

Proverbs 29:1
A man hating sharp words and making his heart hard, will suddenly be broken and will not be made well again.

Ecclesiastes 6:12
Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?

Hebrews 2:3
What will come on us, if we do not give our minds to such a great salvation? a salvation of which our fathers first had knowledge through the words of the Lord, and which was made certain to us by those to whom his words came;

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