Luke 16:3

For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance, but whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he has.

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

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

Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has.”

At Lystra a certain man sat, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked.

Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.

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

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

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

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

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

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

Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, “It’s not wrong,” is a partner with a destroyer.

Your first father sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against me.

and Yahweh will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail.

It is because of the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, That have shed the blood of the just in the middle of her.

Yahweh’s hand was there on me; and he said to me, “Arise, go out into the plain, and I will talk with you there.”

They have seen falsehood and lying divination, who say, ‘Yahweh says;’ but Yahweh has not sent them. They have made men to hope that the word would be confirmed.

The days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool, and the man who is inspired to be insane, because of the abundance of your sins, and because your hostility is great.

If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies: “I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink;” he would be the prophet of this people.

For whoever has, to him more will be given, and he who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.”

and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn’t know the time of your visitation.”

Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.

He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.

what then will I do when God rises up? When he visits, what will I answer him?

Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked: whoever guards his soul stays from them.

a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep,

He will lift up a banner to the nations from far away, and he will whistle for them from the end of the earth. Behold, they will come speedily and swiftly.

The inhabitants of this coast land will say in that day, ‘Behold, this is our expectation, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria. And we, how will we escape?’ ”

The priests didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh?’ and those who handle the law didn’t know me. The rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal and followed things that do not profit.

You, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck yourself with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with makeup, you make yourself beautiful in vain. Your lovers despise you. They seek your life.

Then Yahweh said to me, “The prophets prophesy lies in my name. I didn’t send them. I didn’t command them. I didn’t speak to them. They prophesy to you a lying vision, divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart.

Your prophets have seen false and foolish visions for you. They have not uncovered your iniquity, to reverse your captivity, but have seen for you false revelations and causes of banishment.

I will also cause all her celebrations to cease: her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.

It will be, like people, like priest; and I will punish them for their ways, and will repay them for their deeds.

“But his lord answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn’t sow, and gather where I didn’t scatter.

One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was at the table, leaning against Jesus’ breast.

They recognized him, that it was he who used to sit begging for gifts for the needy at the Beautiful Gate of the temple. They were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.

Paul, an apostle—not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead—

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

Aren’t they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or a meddler in other men’s matters.

Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

She said, ‘Please let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves.’ So she came, and has continued even from the morning until now, except that she rested a little in the house.”

but my loving kindness will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you.

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

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

Don’t be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?

Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

You said, ‘I will be a princess forever,’ so that you didn’t lay these things to your heart, nor did you remember the results.

His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They can’t bark— dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

“For from their least even to their greatest, everyone is given to covetousness. From the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely.

If I go out into the field, then, behold, the slain with the sword! If I enter into the city, then, behold, those who are sick with famine! For both the prophet and the priest go about in the land, and have no knowledge.’ ”

The priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in Yahweh’s house.

For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Don’t let your prophets who are among you and your diviners deceive you. Don’t listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.

Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God’s house.

The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’

For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

Woe, when men speak well of you, for their fathers did the same thing to the false prophets.

By chance a certain priest was going down that way. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side.

‘For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.

Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.

For the sun arises with the scorching wind and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So the rich man will also fade away in his pursuits.

You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.

I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.”

So Haman came in. The king said to him, “What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?” Now Haman said in his heart, “Who would the king delight to honor more than myself?”

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

The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, but the path of the upright is a highway.

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.

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

He who pampers his servant from youth will have him become a son in the end.

What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?

What will you do in the day of solemn assembly, and in the day of the feast of Yahweh?

They came to Jericho. As he went out from Jericho, with his disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road.

Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, “This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner.”

He reasoned within himself, saying, ‘What will I do, because I don’t have room to store my crops?’

A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was taken to his gate, full of sores,

The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.

He wouldn’t for a while, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,

The neighbors therefore, and those who saw that he was blind before, said, “Isn’t this he who sat and begged?”

A certain man who was lame from his mother’s womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the temple.

But rise up and enter into the city, then you will be told what you must do.”

For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don’t work at all, but are busybodies.