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 ones will rule, but the lazy will belong to forced labor.
Proverbs 28:19
He who tills his ground will have plenty bread, but he who follows fantasies will have plenty [of] poverty.
John 6:27
Do not work for the food that perishes, but the food that remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has set his seal on this one."
Hebrews 6:10
For God [is] not unjust, [so as] to forget your work and the love which you demonstrated for his name [by] having served the saints, and continuing to serve [them].
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Ecclesiastes 3:9
What does the worker gain in his toil?
Isaiah 19:15
And {there will be nothing for Egypt to do}, head or tail, palm branch or reed.