Proverbs 12:27

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Anyone too lazy to cook will starve, but a hard worker is a valuable treasure.

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It is better to live right and be poor than to be sinful and rich.

Laziness leads to poverty; hard work makes you rich.

You are better off doing right, than losing your way by doing wrong.

No matter how much you want, laziness won't help a bit, but hard work will reward you with more than enough.

It's better to obey the LORD and have only a little, than to be very rich and terribly confused.

It's better to be honest and poor than to be dishonest and rich.

Don't go and stuff yourself! That would be just the same as cutting your throat.

A door turns on its hinges, but a lazy person just turns over in bed.

Some of us are so lazy that we won't lift a hand to feed ourselves.