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Proverbs 10:4
Poor is one who works with a lazy hand, But the hand of the diligent makes rich.
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Hebrews 6:12
so that you will not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and endurance inherit the promises.
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Proverbs 28:24
He who robs his father or his mother And says,“ There is no wrong done,” Is the companion of a person who destroys.
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Matthew 25:26
“ But his master answered and said to him,‘ You worthless, lazy slave! Did you know that I reap where I did not sow, and gather where I did not scatter seed?
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Proverbs 23:20-21
Do not be with heavy drinkers of wine, Or with gluttonous eaters of meat;For the heavy drinker and the glutton will come to poverty, And drowsiness will clothe one with rags.
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Romans 12:11
not lagging behind in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord;
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Proverbs 24:30-34
I passed by the field of a lazy one, And by the vineyard of a person lacking sense,And behold, it was completely overgrown with weeds; Its surface was covered with weeds, And its stone wall was broken down.When I saw, I reflected upon it; I looked, and received instruction.“ A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to rest,”Then your poverty will come like a drifter, And your need like an armed man.
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Luke 16:1-2
Now He was also saying to the disciples,“ There was a rich man who had a manager, and this manager was reported to him as squandering his possessions.And he summoned him and said to him,‘ What is this I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’
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Luke 15:13-14
And not many days later, the younger son gathered everything together and went on a journey to a distant country, and there he squandered his estate in wild living.Now when he had spent everything, a severe famine occurred in that country, and he began doing without.
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Job 30:29
I have become a brother to jackals, And a companion of ostriches.