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Working Hard Proverbs 13:4 ESV / 123 helpful votes The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.Colossians 3:23 ESV / 61 helpful votes Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,Proverbs 14:23 ESV / 47 helpful votes In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.Proverbs 6:6-11 ESV / 44 helpful votes Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. Without having any chief, officer, or ruler, she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest. How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep? A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, …2 Thessalonians 3:10-12 ESV / 41 helpful votes For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat. For we hear that some among you walk in idleness, not busy at work, but busybodies. Now such persons we command and encourage in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living.Ecclesiastes 9:10 ESV / 26 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.Proverbs 12:24 ESV / 25 helpful votes The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor.Genesis 2:15 ESV / 25 helpful votes The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.Ecclesiastes 10:10 ESV / 24 helpful votes If the iron is blunt, and one does not sharpen the edge, he must use more strength, but wisdom helps one to succeed.Proverbs 12:11 ESV / 24 helpful votes Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense.Philippians 4:13 ESV / 23 helpful votes I can do all things through him who strengthens me.1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 22 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.Proverbs 18:9 ESV / 21 helpful votes Whoever is slack in his work is a brother to him who destroys.Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 20 helpful votes If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. …Proverbs 16:3 ESV / 20 helpful votes Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.2 Thessalonians 3:10 ESV / 19 helpful votes For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 19 helpful votes So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.Romans 15:1-2 ESV / 19 helpful votes We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.Acts 20:35 ESV / 18 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.’”Matthew 5:16 ESV / 17 helpful votes In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.Ephesians 4:28 ESV / 16 helpful votes Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.Proverbs 10:4 ESV / 16 helpful votes A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.Proverbs 6:6-8 ESV / 16 helpful votes Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. Without having any chief, officer, or ruler, she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest.2 Timothy 2:6 ESV / 15 helpful votes It is the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops.
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