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Proverbs 14:1
The wise woman builds her house, but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down.
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Proverbs 24:30-34
I went past the field of a sluggard, past the vineyard of someone who has no sense;thorns had come up everywhere, the ground was covered with weeds, and the stone wall was in ruins.I applied my heart to what I observed and learned a lesson from what I saw:A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest—and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man.
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Proverbs 20:4
Sluggards do not plow in season; so at harvest time they look but find nothing.
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2 Peter 1 5-2 Peter 1 10
For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge;and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness;and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love.For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins.Therefore, my brothers and sisters, make every effort to confirm your calling and election. For if you do these things, you will never stumble,
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Hebrews 6:11
We want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end, so that what you hope for may be fully realized.
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Proverbs 21:25
The craving of a sluggard will be the death of him, because his hands refuse to work.
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Proverbs 23:21
for drunkards and gluttons become poor, and drowsiness clothes them in rags.
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Proverbs 12:24
Diligent hands will rule, but laziness ends in forced labor.
