Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.

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Proverbs 12:24
The hand of the diligent will rule,
But the slack hand will be put to forced labor.
Proverbs 28:19
He who tills his land will have plenty of food,
But he who follows empty pursuits will have poverty in plenty.
John 6:27
Do not work for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you, for on Him the Father, God, has set His seal.”
Hebrews 6:10
For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love which you have shown toward His name, in having ministered and in still ministering to the saints.

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Ecclesiastes 3:9
What profit is there to the worker from that in which he toils?
Isaiah 19:15
There will be no work for Egypt
Which its head or tail, its palm branch or bulrush, may do.