Proverbs 12:11

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The one who works his field will have plenty of food, but whoever chases daydreams lacks sense.

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  • Prov 28:19 : 19 The one who works his land will be satisfied with food, but whoever chases daydreams will have his fill of poverty.
  • Prov 14:23 : 23 In all hard work there is profit, but merely talking about it only brings poverty.
  • 1 Thess 4:11-12 : 11 to aspire to lead a quiet life, to attend to your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you. 12 In this way you will live a decent life before outsiders and not be in need.
  • 2 Thess 3:8 : 8 and we did not eat anyone’s food without paying. Instead, in toil and drudgery we worked night and day in order not to burden any of you.
  • Prov 14:4 : 4 Where there are no oxen, the feeding trough is clean, but an abundant harvest is produced by strong oxen.
  • Eph 4:28 : 28 The one who steals must steal no longer; instead he must labor, doing good with his own hands, so that he will have something to share with the one who has need.
  • Ps 128:2 : 2 You will eat what you worked so hard to grow. You will be blessed and secure.
  • Prov 7:7 : 7 and I saw among the naive– I discerned among the youths– a young man who lacked sense.
  • Prov 9:6 : 6 Abandon your foolish ways so that you may live, and proceed in the way of understanding.”
  • Gen 3:19 : 19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”
  • Judg 9:4 : 4 They paid him seventy silver shekels out of the temple of Baal-Berith. Abimelech then used the silver to hire some lawless, dangerous men as his followers.
  • Ps 26:4 : 4 I do not associate with deceitful men, or consort with those who are dishonest.
  • Prov 27:27 : 27 And there will be enough goat’s milk for your food, for the food of your household, and for the sustenance of your servant girls.
  • Prov 9:13 : 13 The woman called Folly is brash, she is naive and does not know anything.
  • Prov 9:16 : 16 “Whoever is naive, let him turn in here,” To those who lack understanding she has said,
  • Prov 13:20 : 20 The one who associates with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.
  • Prov 1:10-19 : 10 Admonition to Avoid Easy but Unjust Riches My child, if sinners try to entice you, do not consent! 11 If they say,“Come with us! We will lie in wait to shed blood; we will ambush an innocent person capriciously. 12 We will swallow them alive like Sheol, those full of vigor like those going down to the Pit. 13 We will seize all kinds of precious wealth; we will fill our houses with plunder. 14 Join with us! We will all share equally in what we steal.” 15 My child, do not go down their way, withhold yourself from their path; 16 for they are eager to inflict harm, and they hasten to shed blood. 17 Surely it is futile to spread a net in plain sight of any bird, 18 but these men lie in wait for their own blood, they ambush their own lives! 19 Such are the ways of all who gain profit unjustly; it takes away the life of those who obtain it!
  • Prov 4:14-15 : 14 Do not enter the path of the wicked or walk in the way of those who are evil. 15 Avoid it, do not go on it; turn away from it, and go on.
  • Prov 6:32 : 32 A man who commits adultery with a woman lacks sense, whoever does it destroys his own life.
  • Titus 1:10-11 : 10 For there are many rebellious people, idle talkers, and deceivers, especially those with Jewish connections, 11 who must be silenced because they mislead whole families by teaching for dishonest gain what ought not to be taught.
  • Prov 13:23 : 23 Abundant food may come from the field of the poor, but it is swept away by injustice.
  • Jonah 2:8 : 8 Those who worship worthless idols forfeit the mercy that could be theirs.

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