Joshua 18:3

Catholic Public Domain Version

And Joshua said to them: "For how long will you draw back in idleness, and not enter to possess the land, which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given to you?

Cross References

Proverbs 10:4

The neglectful hand has wrought destitution. But the hand of the steadfast prepares riches. He who advances by lies, this one feeds on the wind. For he is the same as one who runs after flying birds.

Proverbs 13:4

The lazy one is willing and then not willing. But the soul of he who labors shall be made fat.

Proverbs 15:19

The way of the slothful is like a hedge of thorns. The way of the just is without offense.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hand is able to do, do it earnestly. For neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge will exist in death, toward which you are hurrying.

Zephaniah 3:16

In that day, it will be said to Jerusalem, "Do not be afraid," and to Zion, "Do not let your hands be weakened."

Matthew 20:6

Yet truly, about the eleventh hour, he went out and found others standing, and he said to them, 'Why have you stood here idle all day?'

John 6:27

Do not work for food that perishes, but for that which endures to eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him."

Joshua 1:6

Be strengthened and be steadfast. For you shall divide by lot, to this people, the land about which I swore to their fathers that I would deliver it to them.

Joshua 13:1

Joshua was old and advanced in age, and the Lord said to him: "You have grown old, and are aged, and a very wide land remains, which has not yet been divided by lot,

Joshua 18:2

But there remained seven tribes of the sons of Israel which had not yet received their possessions.

Joshua 18:4

Select three men from each tribe, so that I may send them, and they may go forth and circle through the land, and may describe it according to the number of each multitude, and may bring back to me what they have written down.

Judges 18:9

"Rise up. Let us ascend to them. For we have seen that the land is very wealthy and fruitful. Do not delay; do not refrain. Let us go out and possess it. There will be no difficulty.