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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Which, having no captain, Overseer or ruler,
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Provides her supplies in the summer, [And] gathers her food in the harvest.
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How long will you slumber, O sluggard? When will you rise from your sleep?
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A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep --
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So shall your poverty come on you like a prowler, And your need like an armed man.
Proverbs 11:24
There is [one] who scatters, yet increases more; And there is [one] who withholds more than is right, But it [leads] to poverty.
Proverbs 12:24
The hand of the diligent will rule, But the lazy [man] will be put to forced labor.
Proverbs 19:15
Laziness casts [one] into a deep sleep, And an idle person will suffer hunger.
Proverbs 19:24
A lazy [man] buries his hand in the bowl, And will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.
Proverbs 20:4
The lazy [man] will not plow because of winter; He will beg during harvest and [have] nothing.
Proverbs 20:13
Do not love sleep, lest you come to poverty; Open your eyes, [and] you will 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 devoid of understanding;
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And there it was, all overgrown with thorns; Its surface was covered with nettles; Its stone wall was broken down.
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When I saw [it,] I considered [it] well; I looked on [it 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 need 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 until the end,
Hebrews 6:12
that you do not become sluggish, 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, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge,
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to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness,
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to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.
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For if these things are yours and abound, [you will be] neither barren nor unfruitful in the 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 old sins.
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Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble;
but
Proverbs 13:4
The soul of a lazy [man] desires, and [has] nothing; But the soul of the diligent shall be made rich.
Proverbs 21:5
The plans of the diligent [lead] surely to plenty, But [those of] everyone [who is] hasty, surely 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.