Proverbs 13:11
Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.
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Proverbs 13:11
Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.
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Genesis 27:40
You will live by your sword, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you will shake his yoke from off your neck.”
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Leviticus 23:3
“ ‘Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no kind of work. It is a Sabbath to Yahweh in all your dwellings.
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Deuteronomy 32:21
They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
Psalms 94:11
Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.
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Judges 19:16
Behold, an old man came from his work out of the field at evening. Now the man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he lived in Gibeah; but the men of the place were Benjamites.
Psalms 104:23
Man goes out to his work, to his labor until the evening.
Proverbs 24:27
Prepare your work outside, and get your fields ready. Afterwards, build your house.
Ecclesiastes 1:13
I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.
Ecclesiastes 5:12
The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.
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1 Samuel 17:22
David left his baggage in the hand of the keeper of the baggage and ran to the army, and came and greeted his brothers.
2 Chronicles 12:10
King Rehoboam made shields of bronze in their place, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept the door of the king’s house.
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2 Kings 5:20
But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought. As Yahweh lives, I will run after him, and take something from him.”
2 Kings 5:21
So Gehazi followed after Naaman. When Naaman saw one running after him, he came down from the chariot to meet him, and said, “Is all well?”
2 Kings 5:22
He said, “All is well. My master has sent me, saying, ‘Behold, even now two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silver and two changes of clothing.’ ”
2 Kings 5:23
Naaman said, “Be pleased to take two talents.” He urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and laid them on two of his servants; and they carried them before him.
2 Kings 5:24
When he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and stored them in the house. Then he let the men go, and they departed.
2 Kings 5:25
But he went in, and stood before his master. Elisha said to him, “Where did you come from, Gehazi?” He said, “Your servant went nowhere.”
2 Kings 5:26
He said to him, “Didn’t my heart go with you when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive groves and vineyards, and sheep and cattle, and male servants and female servants?
2 Kings 5:27
Therefore the leprosy of Naaman will cling to you and to your offspring forever.” He went out from his presence a leper, as white as snow.
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Job 19:22
Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
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Psalms 31:24
Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in Yahweh.
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Psalms 37:26
All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His offspring is blessed.
Proverbs 22:9
He who has a generous eye will be blessed, for he shares his food with the poor.
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Proverbs 5:5
Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol.
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Proverbs 13:2
By the fruit of his lips, a man enjoys good things, but the unfaithful crave violence.
Proverbs 13:6
Righteousness guards the way of integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.
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Proverbs 13:4
The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.
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Proverbs 13:12
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.
Proverbs 13:18
Poverty and shame come to him who refuses discipline, but he who heeds correction shall be honored.
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Proverbs 13:25
The righteous one eats to the satisfying of his soul, but the belly of the wicked goes hungry.
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Proverbs 17:17
A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.
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Proverbs 27:24
for riches are not forever, nor does the crown endure to all generations.
Proverbs 27:25
The hay is removed, and the new growth appears, the grasses of the hills are gathered in.
Proverbs 27:26
The lambs are for your clothing, and the goats are the price of a field.
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Proverbs 22:29
Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings. He won’t serve obscure men.
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.
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Hosea 12:11
If Gilead is wicked, surely they are worthless. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls. Indeed, their altars are like heaps in the furrows of the field.
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Job 20:19
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he will not build it up.
Job 20:20
“Because he knew no quietness within him, he will not save anything of that in which he delights.
Job 20:21
There was nothing left that he didn’t devour, therefore his prosperity will not endure.
Job 20:22
In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress will overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery will come on him.
Job 27:17
he may prepare it, but the just will put it on, and the innocent will divide the silver.
Proverbs 28:8
He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.
Habakkuk 2:6
Won’t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’
Habakkuk 2:7
Won’t your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?
Habakkuk 2:13
Behold, isn’t it from Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?
Revelation 18:17
For in an hour such great riches are made desolate.’ Every ship master, and everyone who sails anywhere, and mariners, and as many as gain their living by sea, stood far away,
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Luke 5:5
Simon answered him, “Master, we worked all night and caught nothing; but at your word I will let down the net.”
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Proverbs 12:9
Better is he who is little known, and has a servant, than he who honors himself and lacks bread.
Luke 18:11
The Pharisee stood and prayed by himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men: extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
Luke 18:12
I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.’
Luke 18:13
But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’
Luke 18:14
I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
1 Corinthians 4:8
You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign with you!
2 Peter 2:19
promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.
Revelation 3:17
Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing,’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;
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Acts 20:34
You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me.
Acts 20:35
In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
2 Thessalonians 3:6
Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion and not after the tradition which they received from us.
2 Thessalonians 3:7
For you know how you ought to imitate us. For we didn’t behave ourselves rebelliously among you,
2 Thessalonians 3:8
neither did we eat bread from anyone’s hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you.
2 Thessalonians 3:10
For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone is not willing to work, don’t let him eat.”
2 Thessalonians 3:11
For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don’t work at all, but are busybodies.
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Proverbs 23:5
Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
Ecclesiastes 5:14
Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.
James 5:1
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.
James 5:2
Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.
James 5:3
Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.
James 5:4
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
James 5:5
You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
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Proverbs 20:14
“It’s no good, it’s no good,” says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
Proverbs 22:8
He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
Proverbs 30:8
Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me,
Titus 1:11
whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.
2 Peter 2:3
In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.
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