Proverbs 10:4

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

But you be strong, and don’t let your hands be slack; for your work will be rewarded.”

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without fear, for he does the work of the Lord, as I also do.

rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

For he will never be shaken. The righteous will be remembered forever.

that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

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

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

When Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.

Moreover your servant is warned by them. In keeping them there is great reward.

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

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.

For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.

For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.

and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

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

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

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

The sluggard buries his hand in the dish. He is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.

Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.

I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.

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

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

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

It isn’t good to have zeal without knowledge, nor being hasty with one’s feet and missing the way.

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

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.

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.

He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds,

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

They said, “Arise, and let’s go up against them; for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good. Do you stand still? Don’t be slothful to go and to enter in to possess the land.

David came to Saul, and stood before him. He loved him greatly; and he became his armor bearer.

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.

Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path,

“Come, eat some of my bread, Drink some of the wine which I have mixed!

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

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.

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

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

What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?

But seek God’s Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.

This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”

not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.

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

Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.

For he received from God the Father honor and glory when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without defect and blameless in his sight.

The labor of the righteous leads to life. The increase of the wicked leads to sin.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Whoever tends the fig tree shall eat its fruit. He who looks after his master shall be honored.

youths in whom was no defect, but well-favored, and skillful in all wisdom, and endowed with knowledge, and understanding science, and who had the ability to stand in the king’s palace; and that he should teach them the learning and the language of the Chaldeans.

The king talked with them; and among them all was found no one like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. Therefore stood they before the king.

Then this Daniel was distinguished above the presidents and the local governors, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.

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.”

Joshua said to the children of Israel, “How long will you neglect to go in to possess the land, which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you?

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

By slothfulness the roof sinks in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.

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.”

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.