Ecclesiastes 10:18

The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

Through wisdom a house is built; by understanding it is established;

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a contentious woman.

It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.

I will strike the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory will perish, and the great houses will have an end,” says Yahweh.

Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;

One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.

Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.

so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone is not willing to work, don’t let him eat.”

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which both built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem.

The slothful man doesn’t roast his game, but the possessions of diligent men are prized.

Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.

He who loves pleasure will be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil won’t be rich.

Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings. He won’t serve obscure men.

She looks well to the ways of her household, and doesn’t eat the bread of idleness.

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,

He saw a resting place, that it was good, the land, that it was pleasant. He bows his shoulder to the burden, and becomes a servant doing forced labor.

They shall tell the elders of his city, “This our son is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey our voice. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”

The man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor; and Solomon saw the young man that he was industrious, and he put him in charge of all the labor of the house of Joseph.

He burned Yahweh’s house, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, he burned with fire.

There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who causes shame, and shall have a part in the inheritance among the brothers.

The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!”

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?

“Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.

Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

The same day, Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, “We have found water.”

let briers grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.

so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.

He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.

The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.

The fear of Yahweh leads to life, then contentment; he rests and will not be touched by trouble.

The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.

for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.

so your poverty will come as a robber and your want as an armed man.

The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road! A fierce lion roams the streets!”

As the door turns on its hinges, so does the sluggard on his bed.

The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer with discretion.

The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.

“For, behold, Yahweh commands, and the great house will be smashed to pieces, and the little house into bits.

saying, ‘This man began to build, and wasn’t able to finish.’

“By your endurance you will win your lives.

Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.

envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.

that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,

and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks be made for all men:

But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.

We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it,