Proverbs 21:5
The thoughts of a diligent man [lead] only to abundance, but everyone who is hasty, only to want.
Proverbs 10:4
He who works with a slack hand becomes poor, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.
Proverbs 28:22
He who has an evil eye hastens after riches, and does not know that want shall come upon him.
Proverbs 13:4
The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
Proverbs 14:29
He who is slow to anger is of great understanding, but he who is hasty of spirit exalts folly.
Proverbs 20:21
An inheritance gotten hastily at the beginning shall not be blessed in the end.
Proverbs 27:23-27
Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, [and] look well to thy herds.
Ephesians 4:28
Let the man who steals steal no more, but rather let him labor, working with his hands the good, so that he may have to give to him who has need.
1 Thessalonians 4:11-12
and to aspire to live quietly, and to do your own things, and to work with your own hands, just as we commanded you,