Proverbs 24:31

Proverbs 24:31
And it was all full of thorns, and covered with waste plants, and its stone wall was broken down.

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Genesis 2:15
And the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to do work in it and take care of it.

Proverbs 10:5
He who in summer gets together his store is a son who does wisely; but he who takes his rest when the grain is being cut is a son causing shame.

Proverbs 12:11
He who does work on his land will not be short of bread; but he who goes after foolish men is without sense.

Proverbs 20:13
Do not be a lover of sleep, or you will become poor: keep your eyes open, and you will have bread enough.

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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.

Psalms 107:34
He makes a fertile country into a salt waste, because of the sins of those who are living there.

Hosea 10:8
And the high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, will come to destruction; thorns and waste plants will come up on their altars; they will say to the mountains, Be a cover over us; and to the hills, Come down on us.

Zephaniah 2:9
For this cause, by my life, says the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, truly Moab will become like Sodom and the children of Ammon like Gomorrah, given up to waste plants and salt pools and unpeopled for ever: the rest of my people will take their property, the overflow of my nation will take their heritage.

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Joshua 23:13
Then you may be certain that the Lord your God will not go on driving these nations out from before you; but they will become a danger and a cause of sin to you, a whip for your sides and thorns in your eyes, till you are cut off from this good land which the Lord your God has given you.

Job 5:5
Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring.

Proverbs 22:5
Thorns and nets are in the way of the twisted: he who keeps watch over his soul will be far from them.

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Job 24:11
Between the lines of olive-trees they make oil; though they have no drink, they are crushing out the grapes.

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Psalms 58:9
Before they are conscious of it, let them be cut down like thorns; let a strong wind take them away like waste growth.

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Psalms 74:11
Why are you keeping back your hand, and covering your right hand in your robe?

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Psalms 112:5
All is well for the man who is kind and gives freely to others; he will make good his cause when he is judged.

Proverbs 6:4
Give no sleep to your eyes, or rest to them;

Proverbs 6:5
Make yourself free, like the roe from the hand of the archer, and the bird from him who puts a net for her.

Proverbs 17:18
A man without sense gives his hand in an agreement, and makes himself responsible before his neighbour.

Proverbs 22:26
Be not one of those who give their hands in an agreement, or of those who make themselves responsible for debts:

Proverbs 22:27
If you have nothing with which to make payment, he will take away your bed from under you.

John 6:12
And when they had had enough, Jesus said to his disciples, Take up the broken bits which are over, so that nothing may be wasted.

Romans 13:8
Be in debt for nothing, but to have love for one another: for he who has love for his neighbour has kept all the law.

Ephesians 4:25
And so, putting away false words, let everyone say what is true to his neighbour: for we are parts one of another.

Ephesians 5:15
Take care then how you are living, not as unwise, but as wise;

Colossians 4:5
Be wise in your behaviour to those who are outside, making good use of the time.

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Proverbs 10:26
Like acid drink to the teeth and as smoke to the eyes, so is the hater of work to those who send him.

Proverbs 10:31
The mouth of the upright man is budding with wisdom, but the twisted tongue will be cut off.

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Proverbs 11:22
Like a ring of gold in the nose of a pig, is a beautiful woman who has no sense.

Proverbs 25:25
As cold water to a tired soul, so is good news from a far country.

Proverbs 26:8
Giving honour to a foolish man is like attempting to keep a stone fixed in a cord.

Proverbs 26:9
Like a thorn which goes up into the hand of a man overcome by drink, so is a wise saying in the mouth of a foolish man.

Proverbs 30:15
The night-spirit has two daughters, Give, give. There are three things which are never full, even four which never say, Enough:

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Proverbs 19:23
The fear of the Lord gives life: and he who has it will have need of nothing; no evil will come his way.

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Proverbs 22:22
Do not take away the property of the poor man because he is poor, or be cruel to the crushed ones when they come before the judge:

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Proverbs 22:23
For the Lord will give support to their cause, and take the life of those who take their goods.

Zechariah 7:10
Do not be hard on the widow, or the child without a father, on the man from a strange country, or on the poor; let there be no evil thought in your heart against your brother.

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Proverbs 22:29
Have you seen a man who is expert in his business? he will take his place before kings; his place will not be among low persons.

Proverbs 23:5
Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.

Proverbs 23:7
For as the thoughts of his heart are, so is he: Take food and drink, he says to you; but his heart is not with you.

Proverbs 24:12
If you say, See, we had no knowledge of this: does not the tester of hearts give thought to it? and he who keeps your soul, has he no knowledge of it? and will he not give to every man the reward of his work?

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Proverbs 23:20
Do not be among those who give themselves to wine-drinking, or among those who make themselves full with meat:

Proverbs 23:32
In the end, its bite is like that of a snake, its wound like the wound of a poison-snake.

Proverbs 23:33
Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say twisted things.

Proverbs 23:34
Yes, you will be like him who takes his rest on the sea, or on the top of a sail-support.

Proverbs 29:21
If a servant is gently cared for from his early years, he will become a cause of sorrow in the end.

Luke 16:3
And the servant said to himself, What am I to do now that my lord takes away my position? I have not enough strength for working in the fields, and I would be shamed if I made requests for money from people in the streets.

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Ecclesiastes 10:8
He who makes a hole for others will himself go into it, and for him who makes a hole through a wall the bite of a snake will be a punishment.

Isaiah 34:15
The arrowsnake will make her hole and put her eggs there, and get her young together under her shade: there the hawks will come together by twos.

Lamentations 3:9
He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.

Amos 4:9
I have sent destruction on your fields by burning and disease: the increase of your gardens and your vine-gardens, your fig-trees and your olive-trees, has been food for worms: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.

Amos 5:19
As if a man, running away from a lion, came face to face with a bear; or went into the house and put his hand on the wall and got a bite from a snake.

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Nehemiah 4:3
Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Such is their building that if a fox goes up it, their stone wall will be broken down.

Psalms 80:13
It is uprooted by the pigs from the woods, the beasts of the field get their food from it.

Song of Solomon 2:15
Take for us the foxes, the little foxes, which do damage to the vines; our vines have young grapes.

Isaiah 5:2
And after working the earth of it with a spade, he took away its stones, and put in it a very special vine; and he put up a watchtower in the middle of it, hollowing out in the rock a place for the grape-crushing; and he was hoping that it would give the best grapes, but it gave common grapes.

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Proverbs 4:23
And keep watch over your heart with all care; so you will have life.

Song of Solomon 6:11
I went down into the garden of nuts to see the green plants of the valley, and to see if the vine was in bud, and the pomegranate-trees were in flower.

Song of Solomon 7:12
Let us go out early to the vine-gardens; let us see if the vine is in bud, if it has put out its young fruit, and the pomegranate is in flower. There I will give you my love.

Isaiah 18:5
For before the time of getting in the grapes, after the opening of the bud, when the flower has become a grape ready for crushing, he will take away the small branches with knives, cutting down and taking away the wide-stretching branches.

Acts 15:36
And after some days, Paul said to Barnabas, Let us go back and see the brothers in every town where we have given the word of God, and see how they are.

2 Corinthians 13:5
Make a test of yourselves, if you are in the faith; make certain of yourselves. Or are you not conscious in yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you, if you are truly Christ's?

1 Thessalonians 3:5
For this reason, when I was no longer able to keep quiet, I sent to get news of your faith, fearing that you might be tested by the Evil One and that our work might come to nothing.

1 Thessalonians 3:6
But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has given us good news of your faith and love, and that you have happy memories of us, desiring greatly to see us, even as we do to see you;

Hebrews 2:13
And again he says, I will put my faith in him. And again, See, I am here, and the children which God has given to me.

Hebrews 2:15
And let those who all their lives were in chains because of their fear of death, go free.

Hebrews 12:15
Looking with care to see that no man among you in his behaviour comes short of the grace of God; for fear that some bitter root may come up to be a trouble to you, and that some of you may be made unclean by it;

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Isaiah 56:10
His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dogs without tongues, unable to make a sound; stretched out dreaming, loving sleep.

Jonah 1:2
Up! go to Nineveh, that great town, and let your voice come to it; for their evil-doing has come up before me.

Jonah 1:3
And Jonah got up to go in flight to Tarshish, away from the Lord; and he went down to Joppa, and saw there a ship going to Tarshish: so he gave them the price of the journey and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish, away from the Lord.

Jonah 1:4
And the Lord sent out a great wind on to the sea and there was a violent storm in the sea, so that the ship seemed in danger of being broken.

Jonah 1:5
Then the sailors were full of fear, every man crying to his god; and the goods in the ship were dropped out into the sea to make the weight less. But Jonah had gone down into the inmost part of the ship where he was stretched out in a deep sleep.

Jonah 1:6
And the ship's captain came to him and said to him, What are you doing sleeping? Up! say a prayer to your God, if by chance God will give a thought to us, so that we may not come to destruction.

Nahum 3:18
Sorrow! how are the keepers of your flock sleeping, O king of Assyria! your strong men are at rest; your people are wandering on the mountains, and there is no one to get them together.

Mark 13:34
It is as when a man who is in another country for a time, having gone away from his house, and given authority to his servants and to everyone his work, gives the porter an order to keep watch.

Mark 13:35
So you are to keep watch: because you are not certain when the master of the house is coming, in the evening, or in the middle of the night, or at the cock's cry, or in the morning;

Mark 13:36
For fear that, coming suddenly, he sees you sleeping.

Mark 13:37
And what I say to you, I say to all, Keep watch.

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Ezekiel 12:15
And they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I send them in flight among the nations, driving them out through the countries.

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Matthew 13:8
And some, falling on good earth, gave fruit, some a hundred, some sixty, some thirty times as much.

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Proverbs 14:1
Wisdom is building her house, but the foolish woman is pulling it down with her hands.

Hebrews 5:11
Of whom we have much to say which it is hard to make clear, because you are slow of hearing.

Hebrews 6:11
And it is our desire that you may all keep the same high purpose in certain hope to the end:

2 Peter 1:6
And self-control to knowledge, and a quiet mind to self-control, and fear of God to a quiet mind,

2 Peter 1:7
And love of the brothers to fear of God, and to love of the brothers, love itself.

2 Peter 1:8
For if you have these things in good measure, they will make you fertile and full of fruit in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Peter 1:9
For the man who has not these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having no memory of how he was made clean from his old sins.

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