Thematic Bible
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Fence » Hedge
"Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a fence around it, dug a pit for its winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went on a journey.
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Your courtiers are like locusts, your officials are like a swarm of locusts! They encamp in the walls on a cold day, yet when the sun rises, they fly away; and no one knows where they are.
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Now I will inform you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will remove its hedge and turn it into pasture, I will break its wall and allow animals to graze there.
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One who digs a pit may fall into it, and one who breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.
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The way of the sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is like a highway.
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Therefore, I will soon fence her in with thorns; I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way.
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Hedge » Of thorns
The way of the sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is like a highway.
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Hedges » Illustrative » Of the way of the slothful
The way of the sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is like a highway.
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Hedges » Difficulty of breaking through
The way of the sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is like a highway.
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Laziness » Lazy people
The sluggard will not plow during the planting season, so at harvest time he looks for the crop but has nothing.
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The appetite of the sluggard craves but gets nothing, but the desire of the diligent will be abundantly satisfied.
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Laziness brings on a deep sleep, and the idle person will go hungry.
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The diligent person will rule, but the slothful will become a slave.
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The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the middle of the streets!"
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The way of the sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is like a highway.
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The one who is slack in his work is a brother to one who destroys.
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I passed by the field of a sluggard, by the vineyard of one who lacks wisdom. I saw that thorns had grown up all over it, the ground was covered with weeds, and its stone wall was broken down. When I saw this, I gave careful consideration to it; I received instruction from what I saw: read more.
"A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to relax, and your poverty will come like a bandit, and your need like an armed robber."
"A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to relax, and your poverty will come like a bandit, and your need like an armed robber."
The one who is lazy becomes poor, but the one who works diligently becomes wealthy. The one who gathers crops in the summer is a wise son, but the one who sleeps during the harvest is a son who brings shame to himself.
What the sluggard desires will kill him, for his hands refuse to work. All day long he craves greedily, but the righteous gives and does not hold back.
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The sluggard says, "There is a lion in the road! A lion in the streets!" Like a door that turns on its hinges, so a sluggard turns on his bed. The sluggard plunges his hand in the dish; he is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth. read more.
The sluggard is wiser in his own estimation than seven people who respond with good sense.
The sluggard is wiser in his own estimation than seven people who respond with good sense.
Way provided » Through the difficulties of life's journey
And as for you, lift up your staff and extend your hand toward the sea and divide it, so that the Israelites may go through the middle of the sea on dry ground.
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You will hear a word spoken behind you, saying, "This is the correct way, walk in it," whether you are heading to the right or the left.
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The way of the sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is like a highway.
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I will lead the blind along an unfamiliar way; I will guide them down paths they have never traveled. I will turn the darkness in front of them into light, and level out the rough ground. This is what I will do for them. I will not abandon them.
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For the horses of Pharaoh came with his chariots and his footmen into the sea, and the Lord brought back the waters of the sea on them, but the Israelites walked on dry land in the middle of the sea."
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The priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firmly on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan. All Israel crossed over on dry ground until the entire nation was on the other side.
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I will make all my mountains into a road; I will construct my roadways."
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This is what the Lord says, the one who made a road through the sea, a pathway through the surging waters,
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