Proverbs 12:11

New International Version

Those who work their land will have abundant food, but those who chase fantasies have no sense.

Cross References

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”

Psalm 128:2

You will eat the fruit of your labor; blessings and prosperity will be yours.

Psalm 26:4

I do not sit with the deceitful, nor do I associate with hypocrites.

Proverbs 13:20

Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm.

Proverbs 13:23

An unplowed field produces food for the poor, but injustice sweeps it away.

Proverbs 14:23

All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.

Proverbs 14:4

Where there are no oxen, the manger is empty, but from the strength of an ox come abundant harvests.

Proverbs 20:13

Do not love sleep or you will grow poor; stay awake and you will have food to spare.

Proverbs 27:27

You will have plenty of goats’ milk to feed your family and to nourish your female servants.

Proverbs 28:19

Those who work their land will have abundant food, but those who chase fantasies will have their fill of poverty.

Proverbs 6:32

But a man who commits adultery has no sense; whoever does so destroys himself.

Proverbs 7:7

I saw among the simple, I noticed among the young men, a youth who had no sense.

Proverbs 9:13

Folly is an unruly woman; she is simple and knows nothing.

Proverbs 9:16

“Let all who are simple come to my house!” To those who have no sense she says,

Proverbs 9:6

Leave your simple ways and you will live; walk in the way of insight.”

Jonah 2:8

“Those who cling to worthless idols turn away from God’s love for them.

Ephesians 4:28

Anyone who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing something useful with their own hands, that they may have something to share with those in need.

2 Thessalonians 3:8

nor did we eat anyone’s food without paying for it. On the contrary, we worked night and day, laboring and toiling so that we would not be a burden to any of you.

Judges 9:4

They gave him seventy shekels of silver from the temple of Baal-Berith, and Abimelek used it to hire reckless scoundrels, who became his followers.