Proverbs 10:4

A Conservative Version

He who works with a slack hand becomes poor, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

Cross References

Proverbs 21:5

The thoughts of a diligent man [lead] only to abundance, but everyone who is hasty, only to want.

Proverbs 20:4

The sluggard will not plow because of the winter. Therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

Proverbs 19:15

Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and the idle soul shall suffer hunger.

Proverbs 13:4

The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.

1 Corinthians 15:58

Therefore, my beloved brothers, become ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not empty in Lord.

Proverbs 20:13

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty. Open thine eyes, [and] thou shall be satisfied with bread.

Proverbs 19:24

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

Proverbs 12:24

The hand of the diligent shall bear rule, but the slothful shall be put under task work.

Proverbs 11:24

There is he who scatters, and increases yet more, and there he is who withholds more than is proper, but only to want.

John 6:27

Work not for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you, for God the Father put a seal on this man.

Ecclesiastes 10:18

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

Proverbs 10:5

He who gathers in summer is a wise son. He who sleeps in harvest is a son who causes shame.

Proverbs 12:27

The slothful man roasts not that which he took in hunting, but the substance of a diligent man [is] precious.

Proverbs 18:9

He also that is slack in his work is brother to him that is a destroyer.

Genesis 26:32

And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, We have found water.