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Working Overtime Proverbs 23:4 ESV / 28 helpful votes Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist.Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 17 helpful votes Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”Philippians 4:13 ESV / 13 helpful votes I can do all things through him who strengthens me.Colossians 3:23 ESV / 10 helpful votes Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,John 10:10 ESV / 10 helpful votes The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.Proverbs 14:23 ESV / 9 helpful votes In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 6 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.Psalm 127:2 ESV / 6 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.John 3:16-17 ESV / 5 helpful votes “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.Isaiah 38:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes Behold, I will make the shadow cast by the declining sun on the dial of Ahaz turn back ten steps.” So the sun turned back on the dial the ten steps by which it had declined.Psalm 128:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.Psalm 90:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands upon us; yes, establish the work of our hands!1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.Hebrews 12:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 4 helpful votes Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.John 6:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes Do not labor for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.”Luke 22:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat,Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.Ecclesiastes 9:10 ESV / 4 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 13:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.Proverbs 12:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor.Proverbs 12:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense.
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