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 diligent will take control, but the lazy will be put to forced labor.
Proverbs 28:19
Whoever works his farmland will have abundant food, but whoever chases fantasies will become very poor.
John 6:27
Do not work for food that perishes but for food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set his seal on him."
Hebrews 6:10
For God is not so unjust as to forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have ministered to the saints and continue to minister to them.
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Ecclesiastes 3:9
What benefit does the worker gain from what he undertakes?
Isaiah 19:15
As a result, there will be nothing for Egypt that head or tail, palm branch or reed, can do.