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 shall bear rule: but the negligent shall be under tribute.
Proverbs 28:19
He that tills his land shall be filled with bread, but he that follows after vain persons shall be filled with poverty.
John 6:27
Labour not for the food which perishes, but for the food which abides unto eternal life, which the Son of man shall give unto you, for him has God the Father sealed.
Hebrews 6:10
For God is not unjust to forget your work and labour of charity which ye have showed in his name, having helped the saints and helping them.
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Ecclesiastes 3:9
What profit does the one that works have in that in which he labours?
Isaiah 19:15
Neither shall it be of any value unto Egypt, any work which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.