Proverbs 14:23

American King James Version (1999)

In all labor there is profit: but the talk of the lips tends only to penury.

Cross References

Job 28:10

He cuts out rivers among the rocks; and his eye sees every precious thing.

Proverbs 10:10

He that winks with the eye causes sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.

Proverbs 12:24

The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.

Proverbs 14:22

Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.

Proverbs 14:24

The crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of fools is folly.

Proverbs 28:19

He that tills his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that follows after vain persons shall have poverty enough.

Ecclesiastes 3:9

What profit has he that works in that wherein he labors?

Ecclesiastes 5:3

For a dream comes through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.

John 6:27

Labor not for the meat which perishes, but for that meat which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give to you: for him has God the Father sealed.

1 Timothy 5:13

And with they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.