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 ruleth, And slothfulness becometh tributary.
Proverbs 28:19
Whoso is tilling his ground is satisfied with bread, And whoso is pursuing vanity, Is filled with poverty.
John 6:27
work not for the food that is perishing, but for the food that is remaining to life age-during, which the Son of Man will give to you, for him did the Father seal -- even God.'
Hebrews 6:10
for God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the labour of the love, that ye shewed to His name, having ministered to the saints and ministering;
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Ecclesiastes 3:9
What advantage hath the doer in that which he is labouring at?
Isaiah 19:15
And there is no work to Egypt, That head or tail, branch or reed, may do.