Proverbs 12:11

The English Standar Version

Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense.

Cross References

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return."

Psalm 128:2

You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.

Psalm 26:4

I do not sit with men of falsehood, nor do I consort with hypocrites.

Proverbs 13:20

Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.

Proverbs 13:23

The fallow ground of the poor would yield much food, but it is swept away through injustice.

Proverbs 14:23

In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.

Proverbs 14:4

Where there are no oxen, the manger is clean, but abundant crops come by the strength of the ox.

Proverbs 20:13

Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.

Proverbs 27:27

There will be enough goats' milk for your food, for the food of your household and maintenance for your girls.

Proverbs 28:19

Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty.

Proverbs 6:32

He who commits adultery lacks sense; he who does it destroys himself.

Proverbs 7:7

and I have seen among the simple, I have perceived among the youths, a young man lacking sense,

Proverbs 9:13

The woman Folly is loud; she is seductive[3] and knows nothing.

Proverbs 9:16

"Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!" And to him who lacks sense she says,

Proverbs 9:6

Leave your simple ways,[1] and live, and walk in the way of insight."

Jonah 2:8

Those who pay regard to vain idols forsake their hope of steadfast love.

Ephesians 4:28

Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.

2 Thessalonians 3:8

nor did we eat anyone's bread without paying for it, but with toil and labor we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you.

Judges 9:4

And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless fellows, who followed him.