Bible Cross References
becometh
Proverbs 6:6-11
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Go to the ant, you sluggard! Consider her ways and be wise;
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who, having no commander, overseer or ruler,
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provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.
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How long will you rest, O sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?
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A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest;
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so shall your poverty come as one walking, and your need like an armed man.
Proverbs 11:24
There is one who scatters, yet increases more; but the one who withholds more than is right, tends to poverty.
Proverbs 12:24
The hand of the diligent shall rule, but the slothful shall be under servitude.
Proverbs 19:15
Laziness causes one to fall into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Proverbs 19:24
A sluggard puts his hand in a dish, and he will not even return it to his mouth.
Proverbs 20:4
The sluggard will not plow; after the autumn he shall beg during harvest and have nothing.
Proverbs 20:13
Do not love sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes and you shall be satisfied with bread.
Proverbs 24:30-34
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I went by the field of the lazy man, and by the vineyard of the man lacking heart;
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and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face of it, and its stone wall was broken down.
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Then I saw; I set my heart on it; I observed and received instruction.
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A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest;
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so shall your poverty come like a prowler, and your want like an armed man.
Ecclesiastes 10:18
Because of laziness the building decays; and through idleness of hands the house leaks.
John 6:27
Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him.
Hebrews 6:11
And we desire that each one of you show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end,
Hebrews 6:12
that you do not become slothful, but imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
2 Peter 1:5-10
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But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, supply with your faith virtue, with virtue knowledge,
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with knowledge self-control, with self-control perseverance, with perseverance godliness,
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with godliness brotherly affection, and with brotherly affection love.
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For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the full true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his sins of the past.
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Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make sure of your calling and election, for if you do these things you will not ever stumble;
but
Proverbs 13:4
The soul of the sluggard desires and has nothing, but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
Proverbs 21:5
The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenty; but the thoughts of everyone who is hasty only to poverty.
1 Corinthians 15:58
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.