Joshua 18:3

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And Josue said to them: How long are you indolent and slack, and go not in to possess the land which the Lord the God of your fathers hath given you?

Cross References

Proverbs 13:4

The sluggard willeth and willeth not: but the soul of them that work, shall be made fat.

Judges 18:9

Arise, and let us go up to them; for we have seen the land which is exceeding rich and fruitful. Neglect not, lose no time: let us go and possess it. There will be no difficulty.

Matthew 20:6

But about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing, and he saith to them: Why stand you here all the day idle?

Proverbs 15:19

The way of the slothful is as a hedge of thorns; the way of the just is without offence.

Proverbs 10:4

The slothful hand hath wrought poverty: but the hand of the industrious getteth riches. He that trusteth to lies feedeth the winds: and the same runneth after birds that fly away.

Zephaniah 3:16

In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem: Fear not: to Sion: Let not thy hands be weakened.

John 6:27

Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that which endureth unto life everlasting, which the Son of man will give you. For him hath God, the Father, sealed.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatsoever thy hand is able to do, do it earnestly: for neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge shall be in hell, whither thou art hastening.

Joshua 18:2

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

Joshua 18:4

Choose of every tribe three men, that I may send them, and they may go and compass the land, and mark it out according to the number of each multitude: and bring back to me what they have marked out.

Joshua 1:6

Take courage, and be strong: for thou shalt divide by lot to this people the land, for which I swore to their fathers, that I would deliver it to them.

Joshua 13:1

Josue was old, and far advanced in years, and the Lord said to him: Thou art grown old, and advanced in age, and there is a very large country left, which is not yet divided by lot: