Proverbs 13:23

Proverbs 13:23
An abundance of food is in poor people’s fields, but injustice sweeps it away.

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Genesis 1:29
God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.

Genesis 1:30
To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;” and it was so.

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.

Genesis 3:18
It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.

Psalms 104:14
He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may produce food out of the earth:

Psalms 104:15
wine that makes the heart of man glad, oil to make his face to shine, and bread that strengthens man’s heart.

Psalms 115:16
The heavens are Yahweh’s heavens, but he has given the earth to the children of men.

Jeremiah 4:3
For Yahweh says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, “Break up your fallow ground, and don’t sow among thorns.

John 15:1
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.

1 Corinthians 3:9
For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.

Hebrews 6:7
For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it and produces a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God;

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Genesis 19:15
When the morning came, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city.”

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1 Samuel 27:1
David said in his heart, “I will now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So I will escape out of his hand.”

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Proverbs 8:21
that I may give wealth to those who love me. I fill their treasuries.

Proverbs 20:21
An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning won’t be blessed in the end.

2 Corinthians 6:10
as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing all things.

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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 6:9
How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?

Proverbs 6:10
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep—

Proverbs 10:4
He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.

Proverbs 11:5
The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

Proverbs 11:6
The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires.

Proverbs 13:4
The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

Ecclesiastes 8:5
Whoever keeps the commandment shall not come to harm, and his wise heart will know the time and procedure.

Ecclesiastes 8:6
For there is a time and procedure for every purpose, although the misery of man is heavy on him.

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Proverbs 14:20
The poor person is shunned even by his own neighbor, but the rich person has many friends.

Proverbs 17:5
Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

Proverbs 18:23
The poor plead for mercy, but the rich answer harshly.

Proverbs 19:1
Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.

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

Ephesians 4:28
Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

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,

1 Thessalonians 4:12
that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

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.

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Proverbs 20:6
Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man?

Ecclesiastes 1:8
All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

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

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Genesis 41:27
The seven thin and ugly cattle that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted with the east wind; they will be seven years of famine.

Genesis 45:6
For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be no plowing and no harvest.

Genesis 47:23
Then Joseph said to the people, “Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.

Psalms 41:1
Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.

Psalms 107:36
There he makes the hungry live, that they may prepare a city to live in,

Psalms 107:37
sow fields, plant vineyards, and reap the fruits of increase.

Proverbs 11:24
There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.

Proverbs 11:25
The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.

Proverbs 19:17
He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

Ecclesiastes 11:6
In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don’t withhold your hand; for you don’t know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be equally good.

Isaiah 28:24
Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods?

Isaiah 28:25
When he has leveled its surface, doesn’t he plant the dill, and scatter the cumin seed, and put in the wheat in rows, the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in its place?

Isaiah 55:10
For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth, and makes it grow and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

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?

2 Corinthians 9:10
Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,

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Jeremiah 8:7
Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times. The turtledove, the swallow, and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don’t know Yahweh’s law.

Jeremiah 8:8
“ ‘How do you say, “We are wise, and Yahweh’s law is with us?” But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has made that a lie.

Jeremiah 8:9
The wise men are disappointed. They are dismayed and trapped. Behold, they have rejected Yahweh’s word. What kind of wisdom is in them?

Jeremiah 8:10
Therefore I will give their wives to others and their fields to those who will possess them. For everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.

Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

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Jeremiah 40:10
As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to stand before the Chaldeans who will come to us; but you, gather wine and summer fruits and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that you have taken.”

Jeremiah 40:11
Likewise when all the Jews who were in Moab, and among the children of Ammon, and in Edom, and who were in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan,

Jeremiah 40:12
then all the Jews returned out of all places where they were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, to Mizpah, and gathered very much wine and summer fruits.

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Daniel 5:10
The queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet house. The queen spoke and said, “O king, live forever; don’t let your thoughts trouble you, nor let your face be changed.

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1 Corinthians 9:9
For it is written in the law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” Is it for the oxen that God cares,

1 Corinthians 9:10
or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.

1 Corinthians 9:11
If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?

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Proverbs 12:14
A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth. The work of a man’s hands shall be rewarded to him.

Proverbs 13:21
Misfortune pursues sinners, but prosperity rewards the righteous.

Proverbs 29:1
He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

Hebrews 2:3
how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation—which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard,

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