Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

Bible References

Love

Proverbs 6:9
How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
Proverbs 10:4
He becometh poor that worketh with a slack hand; But the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
Proverbs 12:11
He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread; But he that followeth after vain persons is void of understanding.
Proverbs 13:4
The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing; But the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
Proverbs 19:15
Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; And the idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Proverbs 24:30
I went by the field of the sluggard, And by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;
Romans 12:11
in diligence not slothful; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
2 Thessalonians 3:10
For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, If any will not work, neither let him eat.

Open

Jonah 1:6
So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
Romans 13:11
And this, knowing the season, that already it is time for you to awake out of sleep: for now is salvation nearer to us than when we first believed.
1 Corinthians 15:34
Awake to soberness righteously, and sin not; for some have no knowledge of God: I speak this to move you to shame.
Ephesians 5:14
Wherefore he'saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee.

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