Proverbs 12:24

Proverbs 12:24
The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.

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Genesis 47:6
The land of Egypt is before you. Make your father and your brothers dwell in the best of the land. Let them dwell in the land of Goshen. If you know any able men among them, then put them in charge of my livestock.”

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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!”

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Deuteronomy 20:6
What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not used its fruit? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use its fruit.

1 Kings 11:8
So he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

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.

Proverbs 27:18
Whoever tends the fig tree shall eat its fruit. He who looks after his master shall be honored.

Matthew 24:45
“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?

Matthew 24:46
Blessed is that servant whom his lord finds doing so when he comes.

Matthew 24:47
Most certainly I tell you that he will set him over all that he has.

Matthew 25:21
“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 25:23
“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.’

1 Corinthians 3:8
Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

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2 Samuel 18:8
For the battle was there spread over the surface of all the country, and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

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1 Kings 9:20
As for all the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel—

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.

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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.

Proverbs 6:6
Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;

Proverbs 6:7
which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,

Proverbs 6:8
provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.

Proverbs 6:11
so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.

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 20:13
Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

Proverbs 21:26
There are those who covet greedily all day long; but the righteous give and don’t withhold.

Proverbs 26:15
The sluggard buries his hand in the dish. He is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.

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Psalms 65:1
Praise waits for you, God, in Zion. Vows shall be performed to you.

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Proverbs 13:2
By the fruit of his lips, a man enjoys good things, but the unfaithful crave violence.

Proverbs 14:14
The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.

Proverbs 18:20
A man’s stomach is filled with the fruit of his mouth. With the harvest of his lips he is satisfied.

Matthew 12:37
For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

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Proverbs 25:21
If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat. If he is thirsty, give him water to drink;

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Proverbs 11:29
He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.

Proverbs 14:23
In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

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.

Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

Ecclesiastes 10:8
He who digs a pit may fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.

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.”

2 Timothy 4:2
preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

Hebrews 5:11
About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.

Hebrews 6:10
For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

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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.

Acts 20:34
You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me.

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Proverbs 14:1
Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

Ecclesiastes 10:18
By slothfulness the roof sinks in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.

2 Peter 1:5
Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

2 Peter 1:6
and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control, perseverance; and in perseverance, godliness;

2 Peter 1:7
and in godliness, brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.

2 Peter 1:8
For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to not be idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Peter 1:9
For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.

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