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Business life » Business virtues » Diligence
If it is encouraging, devote yourself to encouraging others. If it is sharing, share generously. If it is leading, lead enthusiastically. If it is helping, help cheerfully.
But we want each of you to continue to be diligent to the very end, in order to give full assurance to your hope.
Lazy hands bring poverty, but hard-working hands lead to wealth.
The lazy person craves, yet receives nothing, but the desires of the diligent are satisfied.
So then, my brothers, be all the more eager to make your calling and election certain, for if you keep on doing this you will never fail.
So then, dear friends, since you are looking forward to this, make every effort to have the Lord find you at peace and without spot or fault.
Desires » Who desires
A lazy person doesn't plow in the proper season; he looks for a harvest, but there is nothing.
The lazy person craves, yet receives nothing, but the desires of the diligent are satisfied.
Laziness puts one to sleep, and an idle person will go hungry.
Diligence » Business
If it is encouraging, devote yourself to encouraging others. If it is sharing, share generously. If it is leading, lead enthusiastically. If it is helping, help cheerfully.
But we want each of you to continue to be diligent to the very end, in order to give full assurance to your hope.
Lazy hands bring poverty, but hard-working hands lead to wealth.
The lazy person craves, yet receives nothing, but the desires of the diligent are satisfied.
So then, my brothers, be all the more eager to make your calling and election certain, for if you keep on doing this you will never fail.
So then, dear friends, since you are looking forward to this, make every effort to have the Lord find you at peace and without spot or fault.
Diligence » The diligent
Lazy hands bring poverty, but hard-working hands lead to wealth.
The lazy person craves, yet receives nothing, but the desires of the diligent are satisfied.
The diligent will take control, but the lazy will be put to forced labor.
Plans of the persistent surely lead to productivity, but all who are hasty will surely become poor.
Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will work for kings, not unimportant people.
Diligence » In temporal matters, leads to » Prosperity
Lazy hands bring poverty, but hard-working hands lead to wealth.
The lazy person craves, yet receives nothing, but the desires of the diligent are satisfied.
Diligence » Prosperity
Lazy hands bring poverty, but hard-working hands lead to wealth.
The lazy person craves, yet receives nothing, but the desires of the diligent are satisfied.
Idleness and sloth » Lead to » Disappointment
The lazy person craves, yet receives nothing, but the desires of the diligent are satisfied.
What the lazy person craves will kill him, because his hands refuse to work.
Laziness » Lazy people
A lazy person doesn't plow in the proper season; he looks for a harvest, but there is nothing.
The lazy person craves, yet receives nothing, but the desires of the diligent are satisfied.
Laziness puts one to sleep, and an idle person will go hungry.
The diligent will take control, but the lazy will be put to forced labor.
The lazy person says, "There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the street!"
The lifestyle of the lazy is like a thorny hedge, but the path taken by the upright is an open highway.
Whoever is lazy regarding his work is also a brother to the master of destruction.
I went by the field belonging to a lazy man, by a vineyard belonging to a senseless person. There it was, overgrown with thistles, the ground covered with thorns, its stone wall collapsed. As I observed, I thought about it; I watched, and learned a lesson: read more.
"A little sleep! A little slumber! A little folding of my hands to rest!" Then your poverty will come upon you like a robber, your need like an armed bandit.
"A little sleep! A little slumber! A little folding of my hands to rest!" Then your poverty will come upon you like a robber, your need like an armed bandit.
Lazy hands bring poverty, but hard-working hands lead to wealth. Whoever harvests during summer acts wisely, but the son who sleeps during harvest is disgraceful.
What the lazy person craves will kill him, because his hands refuse to work. All day long he continues to crave, while the righteous person gives without holding back.
The lazy person claims, "There is a lion in the road! There's a lion in the streets!" The door turns on its hinges as does the lazy person on his bed. The lazy person buries his hand in the dish, but he's too tired to bring it to his mouth again. read more.
The lazy person is wiser in his own opinion than seven men who can give an appropriate response.
The lazy person is wiser in his own opinion than seven men who can give an appropriate response.
Poverty » Who will end up in poverty
Whoever works his farmland will have abundant food, but whoever chases fantasies will become very poor.
Pleasure lovers become poor; loving wine and oil doesn't bring riches.
Do not love sleep or you'll become poor, keep your eyes open and you'll have plenty of food.
Whoever oppresses the poor to enrich himself and whoever gives gifts to the wealthy will yield only loss.
Lazy hands bring poverty, but hard-working hands lead to wealth.
The lazy person craves, yet receives nothing, but the desires of the diligent are satisfied.
Don't associate with heavy drinkers or dine with gluttons, because drunks and gluttons tend to become poor, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.
I went by the field belonging to a lazy man, by a vineyard belonging to a senseless person. There it was, overgrown with thistles, the ground covered with thorns, its stone wall collapsed. As I observed, I thought about it; I watched, and learned a lesson: read more.
"A little sleep! A little slumber! A little folding of my hands to rest!" Then your poverty will come upon you like a robber, your need like an armed bandit.
"A little sleep! A little slumber! A little folding of my hands to rest!" Then your poverty will come upon you like a robber, your need like an armed bandit.
Virtues » Business » Diligence
If it is encouraging, devote yourself to encouraging others. If it is sharing, share generously. If it is leading, lead enthusiastically. If it is helping, help cheerfully.
But we want each of you to continue to be diligent to the very end, in order to give full assurance to your hope.
Lazy hands bring poverty, but hard-working hands lead to wealth.
The lazy person craves, yet receives nothing, but the desires of the diligent are satisfied.
So then, my brothers, be all the more eager to make your calling and election certain, for if you keep on doing this you will never fail.
So then, dear friends, since you are looking forward to this, make every effort to have the Lord find you at peace and without spot or fault.