Proverbs 10:4
He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.
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Proverbs 10:4
He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.
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Genesis 3:17
To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and have eaten from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.
Psalms 127:2
It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil, for he gives sleep to his loved ones.
Ecclesiastes 9:11
I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.
Matthew 13:22
What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.
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Genesis 26:25
He built an altar there, and called on Yahweh’s name, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac’s servants dug a well.
Genesis 26:32
The same day, Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, “We have found water.”
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Leviticus 14:15
The priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand.
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Ruth 3:7
When Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. She came softly, uncovered his feet, and lay down.
Ruth 3:14
She lay at his feet until the morning, then she rose up before one could discern another. For he said, “Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor.”
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1 Samuel 12:14
If you will fear Yahweh, and serve him, and listen to his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of Yahweh, then both you and also the king who reigns over you are followers of Yahweh your God.
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1 Kings 12:20
When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the congregation, and made him king over all Israel. There was no one who followed David’s house, except for the tribe of Judah only.
Proverbs 16:30
One who winks his eyes to plot perversities, one who compresses his lips, is bent on evil.
Proverbs 17:2
A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who causes shame, and shall have a part in the inheritance among the brothers.
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Job 13:7
Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?
Psalms 52:2
Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Psalms 52:4
You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.
Psalms 120:3
What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, you deceitful tongue?
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Job 15:23
He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
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Psalms 4:4
Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still. Selah.
Psalms 77:6
I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires:
Psalms 139:23
Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.
Psalms 139:24
See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.
Psalms 141:3
Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.
Mark 9:1
He said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste death until they see God’s Kingdom come with power.”
2 Corinthians 13:5
Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.
Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself up for me.
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Proverbs 11:16
A gracious woman obtains honor, but violent men obtain riches.
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Proverbs 12:23
A prudent man keeps his knowledge, but the hearts of fools proclaim foolishness.
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Psalms 101:7
He who practices deceit won’t dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won’t be established before my eyes.
Proverbs 13:20
One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.
2 Corinthians 6:14
Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
2 Corinthians 6:15
What agreement does Christ have with Belial? Or what portion does a believer have with an unbeliever?
2 Corinthians 6:16
What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”
2 Corinthians 6:17
Therefore “ ‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.
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Job 1:10
Haven’t you made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
Psalms 128:2
For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.
Proverbs 13:13
Whoever despises instruction will pay for it, but he who respects a command will be rewarded.
Proverbs 13:23
An abundance of food is in poor people’s fields, but injustice sweeps it away.
Proverbs 20:21
An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning won’t be blessed in the end.
Proverbs 28:19
One who works his land will have an abundance of food; but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.
Jeremiah 17:11
As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool.
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Job 28:10
He cuts out channels among the rocks. His eye sees every precious thing.
Proverbs 9:9
Instruct a wise person, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous person, and he will increase in learning.
Proverbs 14:23
In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.
Matthew 4:18
Walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers: Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew, his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen.
Acts 20:34
You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me.
1 Thessalonians 4:11
and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you,
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Proverbs 24:7
Wisdom is too high for a fool. He doesn’t open his mouth in the gate.
Hosea 9:16
Ephraim is struck. Their root has dried up. They will bear no fruit. Even though they give birth, yet I will kill the beloved ones of their womb.”
Hosea 10:14
Therefore a battle roar will arise among your people, and all your fortresses will be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth Arbel in the day of battle. The mother was dashed in pieces with her children.
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Proverbs 31:13
She seeks wool and flax, and works eagerly with her hands.
Proverbs 31:16
She considers a field, and buys it. With the fruit of her hands, she plants a vineyard.
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Isaiah 30:7
For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore I have called her Rahab who sits still.
Isaiah 32:17
The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.
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Matthew 7:7
“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.
1 Thessalonians 5:17
Pray without ceasing.
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Matthew 25:15
To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his own ability. Then he went on his journey.
Matthew 25:16
Immediately he who received the five talents went and traded with them, and made another five talents.
Matthew 25:17
In the same way, he also who got the two gained another two.
Matthew 25:18
But he who received the one talent went away and dug in the earth and hid his lord’s money.
Matthew 25:23
“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things. I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’
Matthew 25:29
For to everyone who has will be given, and he will have abundance, but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away.
Luke 19:26
‘For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.
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Proverbs 6:6
Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;
Proverbs 15:19
The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, but the path of the upright is a highway.
Proverbs 18:9
One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.
Proverbs 19:24
The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.
Proverbs 23:20
Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat;
Proverbs 26:14
As the door turns on its hinges, so does the sluggard on his bed.
Proverbs 26:15
The sluggard buries his hand in the dish. He is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.
Proverbs 26:16
The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer with discretion.
Matthew 25:26
“But his lord answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn’t sow, and gather where I didn’t scatter.
Hebrews 6:12
that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.
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Luke 1:1
Since many have undertaken to set in order a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us,
Luke 9:62
But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for God’s Kingdom.”
Acts 11:21
The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord.
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Judges 18:9
They said, “Arise, and let’s go up against them; for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good. Do you stand still? Don’t be slothful to go and to enter in to possess the land.
Job 31:1
“I made a covenant with my eyes; how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?
Psalms 34:11
Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.
Proverbs 3:14
For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold.
Proverbs 4:23
Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.
Matthew 4:4
But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of God’s mouth.’ ”
Matthew 6:21
for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
John 6:27
Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”
1 Corinthians 15:58
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
Colossians 3:16
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.
Hebrews 3:12
Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;
2 Peter 1:11
For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
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Numbers 23:10
Who can count the dust of Jacob, or count the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous! Let my last end be like his!”
Romans 8:15
For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
2 Corinthians 3:18
But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.
2 Corinthians 4:17
For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,
2 Corinthians 5:1
For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
1 Peter 1:8
whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,
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Psalms 1:2
but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.
Psalms 1:3
He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.
Proverbs 10:6
Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs 12:2
A good man shall obtain favor from Yahweh, but he will condemn a man of wicked plans.
Galatians 4:15
What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.
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Proverbs 21:17
He who loves pleasure will be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil won’t be rich.
1 Timothy 5:6
But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.
2 Timothy 3:4
traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
2 Timothy 4:2
preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.
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