Proverbs 21:25
The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.
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Proverbs 21:25
The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.
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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.”
Proverbs 21:5
The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.
Proverbs 27:23
Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds,
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.
Proverbs 27:27
There will be plenty of goats’ milk for your food, for your family’s food, and for the nourishment of your servant girls.
Proverbs 29:21
He who pampers his servant from youth will have him become a son in the end.
Ecclesiastes 10:18
By slothfulness the roof sinks in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.
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.
Romans 12:11
not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord,
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 3:10
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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Leviticus 26:39
Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers they shall pine away with them.
Deuteronomy 5:29
Oh that there were such a heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them and with their children forever!
Psalms 81:11
But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.
Psalms 81:12
So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.
Psalms 81:13
Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
Proverbs 17:16
Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, since he has no understanding?
Proverbs 18:15
The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
Hosea 4:11
Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.
Hosea 6:4
“Ephraim, what shall I do to you? Judah, what shall I do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew that disappears early.
John 3:19
This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil.
John 3:20
For everyone who does evil hates the light and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.
Acts 28:26
saying, ‘Go to this people and say, in hearing, you will hear, but will in no way understand. In seeing, you will see, but will in no way perceive.
Acts 28:27
For this people’s heart has grown callous. Their ears are dull of hearing. Their eyes they have closed. Lest they should see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, then I would heal them.’
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Numbers 11:34
The name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who lusted.
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Joshua 7:3
They returned to Joshua, and said to him, “Don’t let all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and strike Ai. Don’t make all the people to toil there, for there are only a few of them.”
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Joshua 18:3
Joshua said to the children of Israel, “How long will you neglect to go in to possess the land, which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you?
Psalms 27:4
One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.
Psalms 63:8
My soul stays close to you. Your right hand holds me up.
Psalms 73:25
Whom do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth whom I desire besides you.
Galatians 6:14
But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
Philippians 3:13
Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind and stretching forward to the things which are before,
Philippians 3:20
For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
Colossians 3:1
If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.
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1 Kings 8:18
But Yahweh said to David my father, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart.
Haggai 2:4
Yet now be strong, Zerubbabel,’ says Yahweh. ‘Be strong, Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land,’ says Yahweh, ‘and work, for I am with you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.
2 Corinthians 8:12
For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don’t have.
Philippians 2:12
So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
Philippians 2:13
For it is God who works in you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
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Psalms 101:5
I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.
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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 6:10
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep—
Proverbs 6:11
so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.
Proverbs 10:26
As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.
Proverbs 11:5
The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
Proverbs 19:7
All the relatives of the poor shun him; how much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.
Proverbs 21:17
He who loves pleasure will be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil won’t be rich.
Proverbs 23:21
for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.
Ecclesiastes 4:5
The fool folds his hands together and ruins himself.
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Psalms 145:19
He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.
Proverbs 10:24
What the wicked fear will overtake them, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.
Proverbs 11:23
The desire of the righteous is only good. The expectation of the wicked is wrath.
Matthew 5:6
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.
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Proverbs 17:6
Children’s children are the crown of old men; the glory of children is their parents.
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Proverbs 23:26
My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.
Hosea 10:2
Their heart is divided. Now they will be found guilty. He will demolish their altars. He will destroy their sacred stones.
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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 21:27
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination— how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind!
Matthew 19:22
But when the young man heard this, he went away sad, for he was one who had great possessions.
Mark 6:20
for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe. When he heard him, he did many things, and he heard him gladly.
John 7:34
You will seek me and won’t find me. You can’t come where I am.”
John 13:33
Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come,’ so now I tell you.
Romans 9:31
but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness.
Romans 9:32
Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,
Romans 9:33
even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”
Romans 10:3
For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
James 4:17
To him therefore who knows to do good and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.
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Proverbs 1:24
Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;
Proverbs 1:25
but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;
Proverbs 1:26
I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you,
Proverbs 1:27
when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come on you.
Proverbs 1:28
Then they will call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me,
Proverbs 13:13
Whoever despises instruction will pay for it, but he who respects a command will be rewarded.
Ecclesiastes 10:15
The labor of fools wearies every one of them; for he doesn’t know how to go to the city.
Isaiah 1:15
When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
Isaiah 58:2
Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways. As a nation that did righteousness, and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments. They delight to draw near to God.
Isaiah 58:3
‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you don’t see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you don’t notice?’ “Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and oppress all your laborers.
Isaiah 58:4
Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness. You don’t fast today so as to make your voice to be heard on high.
Ezekiel 33:31
They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.
Mark 6:18
For John had said to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.”
Mark 6:19
Herodias set herself against him and desired to kill him, but she couldn’t,
John 8:21
Jesus said therefore again to them, “I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can’t come.”
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Proverbs 14:1
Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.
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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