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Work Hard Proverbs 21:5 ESV / 74 helpful votes The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.Colossians 3:23 ESV / 47 helpful votes Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,Proverbs 10:4 ESV / 31 helpful votes A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.Proverbs 13:4 ESV / 23 helpful votes The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 21 helpful votes But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.Ecclesiastes 9:10 ESV / 17 helpful votes Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 13 helpful votes Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.Proverbs 14:23 ESV / 13 helpful votes In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.Proverbs 12:11 ESV / 12 helpful votes Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense.Acts 20:35 ESV / 11 helpful votes In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”Proverbs 24:27 ESV / 11 helpful votes Prepare your work outside; get everything ready for yourself in the field, and after that build your house.Proverbs 12:24 ESV / 11 helpful votes The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor.1 Thessalonians 4:11 ESV / 10 helpful votes And to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you,Proverbs 20:4 ESV / 10 helpful votes The sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing.1 Peter 4:11 ESV / 9 helpful votes Whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.James 1:17 ESV / 8 helpful votes Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.Luke 6:38 ESV / 8 helpful votes Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”Proverbs 28:19 ESV / 7 helpful votes Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty.Psalm 127:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep.Hebrews 7:1-4 ESV / 6 helpful votes For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, and to him Abraham apportioned a tenth part of everything. He is first, by translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then he is also king of Salem, that is, king of peace. He is without father or mother or genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God he continues a priest forever. See how great this man was to whom Abraham the patriarch gave a tenth of the spoils!Titus 2:9-12 ESV / 6 helpful votes Slaves are to be submissive to their own masters in everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative, not pilfering, but showing all good faith, so that in everything they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior. For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,Ecclesiastes 5:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes Sweet is the sleep of a laborer, whether he eats little or much, but the full stomach of the rich will not let him sleep.Proverbs 24:30-34 ESV / 6 helpful votes I passed by the field of a sluggard, by the vineyard of a man lacking sense, and behold, it was all overgrown with thorns; the ground was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down. Then I saw and considered it; I looked and received instruction. A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.Proverbs 22:29 ESV / 6 helpful votes Do you see a man skillful in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men.
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