Proverbs 14:23
In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.
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- Proverbs 28:19 One who works his land will have an abundance of food; but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.
- 2 Thessalonians 3:10–12 For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone is not willing to work, don’t let him eat.” For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don’t work at all, but are busybodies. Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that they work with quietness and eat their own bread.
- Proverbs 12:24 The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.