Proverbs 10:4

Good News Translation

Being lazy will make you poor, but hard work will make you rich.

Cross References

Genesis 26:32

On that day Isaac's servants came and told him about the well which they had dug. They said, “We have found water.”

Proverbs 10:5

A sensible person gathers the crops when they are ready; it is a disgrace to sleep through the time of harvest.

Proverbs 11:24

Some people spend their money freely and still grow richer. Others are cautious, and yet grow poorer.

Proverbs 12:24

Hard work will give you power; being lazy will make you a slave.

Proverbs 12:27

If you are lazy, you will never get what you are after, but if you work hard, you will get a fortune.

Proverbs 13:4

No matter how much a lazy person may want something, he will never get it. A hard worker will get everything he wants.

Proverbs 18:9

A lazy person is as bad as someone who is destructive.

Proverbs 19:15

Go ahead and be lazy; sleep on, but you will go hungry.

Proverbs 19:24

Some people are too lazy to put food in their own mouths.

Proverbs 20:13

If you spend your time sleeping, you will be poor. Keep busy and you will have plenty to eat.

Proverbs 20:4

A farmer too lazy to plow his fields at the right time will have nothing to harvest.

Proverbs 21:5

Plan carefully and you will have plenty; if you act too quickly, you will never have enough.

Ecclesiastes 10:18

When you are too lazy to repair your roof, it will leak, and the house will fall in.

John 6:27

Do not work for food that spoils; instead, work for the food that lasts for eternal life. This is the food which the Son of Man will give you, because God, the Father, has put his mark of approval on him.”

1 Corinthians 15:58

So then, my dear friends, stand firm and steady. Keep busy always in your work for the Lord, since you know that nothing you do in the Lord's service is ever useless.