Proverbs 20:13

New International Reader's Version

Don’t love sleep, or you will become poor. Stay awake, and you will have more food than you need.

Cross References

Proverbs 10:4

Hands that don’t want to work make you poor. But hands that work hard bring wealth to you.

Proverbs 12:11

Those who farm their land will have plenty of food. But those who chase dreams have no sense.

Proverbs 13:4

People who refuse to work want things and get nothing. But the desires of people who work hard are completely satisfied.

Proverbs 19:15

Anyone who doesn’t want to work sleeps his life away. And a person who refuses to work goes hungry.

Proverbs 20:14

“It’s no good. It’s no good!” says a buyer. Then off they go and brag about what they bought.

Proverbs 28:19

Those who work their land will have plenty of food. But those who chase dreams will be very poor.

Proverbs 31:15

She gets up while it is still night. She provides food for her family. She also gives some to her female servants.

Jonah 1:6

The captain went down to him and said, “How can you sleep? Get up and call out to your god for help! Maybe he’ll pay attention to what’s happening to us. Then we won’t die.”

Romans 12:11

Stay excited about your faith as you serve the Lord.

Romans 13:11

When you do these things, keep in mind the times we are living in. The hour has already come for you to wake up from your sleep. The full effects of our salvation are closer now than when we first believed in Christ.

1 Corinthians 15:34

You should come back to your senses and stop sinning. Some of you don’t know anything about God. I say this to make you ashamed.

Ephesians 5:14

That is why it is said, “Wake up, sleeper. Rise from the dead. Then Christ will shine on you.”

2 Thessalonians 3:10

Even when we were with you, we gave you a rule. We said, “Anyone who won’t work shouldn’t be allowed to eat.”