Proverbs 20:4

Proverbs 20:4
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

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Genesis 3:19
You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

Psalms 104:23
Man goes out to his work, to his labor until the evening.

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

Colossians 4:3
praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds,

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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Exodus 16:27
On the seventh day, some of the people went out to gather, and they found none.

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Leviticus 27:17
If he dedicates his field from the Year of Jubilee, according to your valuation it shall stand.

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Deuteronomy 7:7
Yahweh didn’t set his love on you nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples;

Deuteronomy 7:8
but because Yahweh loves you, and because he desires to keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, Yahweh has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

Isaiah 53:5
But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.

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1 Samuel 2:8
He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.

Psalms 37:25
I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

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

Mark 10:46
They came to Jericho. As he went out from Jericho with his disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road.

Luke 16:3
“The manager said within himself, ‘What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don’t have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg.

Luke 16:20
A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was taken to his gate, full of sores,

Luke 16:22
The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried.

John 9:8
Therefore the neighbors and those who saw that he was blind before said, “Isn’t this he who sat and begged?”

Acts 3:2
A certain man who was lame from his mother’s womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the temple.

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1 Samuel 30:25
It was so from that day forward that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel to this day.

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Ezra 2:18
The children of Jorah, one hundred twelve.

Nehemiah 7:24
The children of Hariph: one hundred twelve.

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Proverbs 3:27
Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

Ecclesiastes 11:4
He who observes the wind won’t sow; and he who regards the clouds won’t reap.

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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 10:5
He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during the harvest is a son who causes shame.

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

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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Proverbs 13:13
Whoever despises instruction will pay for it, but he who respects a command will be rewarded.

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Proverbs 18:17
He who pleads his cause first seems right— until another comes and questions him.

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Proverbs 19:23
The fear of Yahweh leads to life, then contentment; he rests and will not be touched by trouble.

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Proverbs 20:10
Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

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 20:17
Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.

Proverbs 20:23
Yahweh detests differing weights, and dishonest scales are not pleasing.

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Ecclesiastes 4:5
The fool folds his hands together and ruins himself.

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Jeremiah 6:21
Therefore Yahweh says, “Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people. The fathers and the sons together will stumble against them. The neighbor and his friend will perish.”

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Jeremiah 18:18
Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

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Matthew 19:22
But when the young man heard this, he went away sad, for he was one who had great possessions.

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Matthew 25:3
Those who were foolish, when they took their lamps, took no oil with them,

Matthew 25:4
but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.

Matthew 25:5
Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept.

Matthew 25:6
But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Behold! The bridegroom is coming! Come out to meet him!’

Matthew 25:7
Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.

Matthew 25:9
But the wise answered, saying, ‘What if there isn’t enough for us and you? You go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.’

Matthew 25:10
While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast, and the door was shut.

Matthew 25:24
“He also who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Lord, I knew you that you are a hard man, reaping where you didn’t sow, and gathering where you didn’t scatter.

Matthew 25:25
I was afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the earth. Behold, you have what is yours.’

Matthew 25:27
You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest.

Matthew 25:28
Take away therefore the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents.

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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Luke 12:50
But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!

Luke 22:15
He said to them, “I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer,

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Proverbs 10:26
As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.

Proverbs 18:9
One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.

Romans 12:11
not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord,

Hebrews 4:11
Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

Hebrews 6:11
We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,

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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