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 active shall give dominion: and of the slothful one shall be for tribute.
Proverbs 28:19
He working his land shall be filled with bread: and he pursuing the vain shall be filled with poverty.
John 6:27
Work not for food perishing, but food remaining to eternal life, which the Son of man will give you: for him God the Father sealed.
Hebrews 6:10
For God is not unjust to forget your work and fatigue of love, which ye showed to his name, having served to the holy ones, and serving.
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Ecclesiastes 3:9
What the excellence of him working in what he labored?
Isaiah 19:15
And there shall not be to Egypt a work which shall make head and tail, branch and reed.