Thematic Bible: Requires
Thematic Bible
Agriculture or husbandry » Requires » Diligence in, abundantly recompensed
He who does work on his land will not be short of bread; but he who goes after foolish men is without sense.
There is much food in the ploughed land of the poor; but it is taken away by wrongdoing.
By ploughing his land a man will have bread in full measure; but he who goes after good-for-nothing persons will be poor enough.
For a land, drinking in the frequent rain and producing good plants for those for whom it is worked, has a blessing from God:
Agriculture or husbandry » Requires » Diligence
In the morning put your seed into the earth, and till the evening let not your hand be at rest; because you are not certain which will do well, this or that--or if the two will be equally good.
Take care to have knowledge about the condition of your flocks, looking well after your herds; For wealth is not for ever, and money does not go on for all generations. The grass comes up and the young grass is seen, and the mountain plants are got in. read more.
The lambs are for your clothing, and the he-goats make the value of a field: There will be goats' milk enough for your food, and for the support of your servant-girls.
The lambs are for your clothing, and the he-goats make the value of a field: There will be goats' milk enough for your food, and for the support of your servant-girls.
Agriculture or husbandry » Requires » Toil
It is right for the worker in the fields to be the first to take of the fruit.
Agriculture or husbandry » Requires » Wisdom
For his God is his teacher, giving him the knowledge of these things.
Agriculture or husbandry » Requires » Patience in waiting
Go on waiting calmly, my brothers, till the coming of the Lord, like the farmer waiting for the good fruit of the earth till the early and late rains have come.
Justice » God » Requires
He has made clear to you, O man, what is good; and what is desired from you by the Lord; only doing what is right, and loving mercy, and walking without pride before your God.
Verse Concepts
War » Requires
For by wise guiding you will overcome in war: and in a number of wise guides there is salvation.
A wise man goes up into the town of the strong ones, and overcomes its strength in which they put their faith.
There was a little town and the number of its men was small, and there came a great king against it and made an attack on it, building works of war round about it. Now there was in the town a poor, wise man, and he, by his wisdom, kept the town safe. But no one had any memory of that same poor man. Then I said, Wisdom is better than strength, but the poor man's wisdom is not respected, and his words are not given a hearing. read more.
The words of the wise which come quietly to the ear are noted more than the cry of a ruler among the foolish. Wisdom is better than instruments of war, but one sinner is the destruction of much good.
The words of the wise which come quietly to the ear are noted more than the cry of a ruler among the foolish. Wisdom is better than instruments of war, but one sinner is the destruction of much good.
Or what king, going to war with another king, will not first take thought if he will be strong enough, with ten thousand men, to keep off him who comes against him with twenty thousand? Or while the other is still a great distance away, he sends representatives requesting conditions of peace.