Proverbs 10:4

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Summary

Proverbs 10:4

He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

Becometh

But

Proverbs 13:4

Proverbs 21:5

1 Corinthians 15:58

General references

Proverbs 6:11

Bible References

Becometh

Go to the Emmet, thou sluggard: consider her ways, and learn to be wise.

Some man giveth out his goods, and is richer; but the niggard, having enough, will depart from nothing, and yet is ever in poverty.

A diligent hand shall bear rule; but the idle shall be under tribute.

Slothfulness bringeth sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

A slothful body will not go to plow, for cold of the winter; therefore shall he go a begging in Summer and have nothing.

I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyards of the foolish man.

Through slothfulness the balks fall down, and through idle hands it raineth in at the house.

Labor not for the meat which perisheth, but for the meat that endureth unto everlasting life, which meat the son of man shall give unto you. For him hath God the father sealed."

Yea, and we desire that every one of you show the same diligence, to the establishing of hope, even unto the end:

And hereunto, give all diligence: In your faith, minister virtue; and in virtue, knowledge;

But

The sluggard would fain have, and cannot get his desire; but the soul of the diligent shall have plenty.

The devices of one that is diligent, bring plenteousness; but he that is unadvised, cometh to poverty.

Therefore, my dear brethren, be ye steadfast and unmovable, always rich in the works of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know how that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

General references

so shall poverty come unto thee as one that travaileth by the way, and necessity like a weaponed man.