Proverbs 10:4

The Passion Translation

Slackers will know what it means to be poor, while the hard worker becomes wealthy.

Cross References

Genesis 26:32

Later that same day, Isaac’s servants came with wonderful news about the well they had dug, saying, “We’ve just found water!”

Proverbs 10:5

Know the importance of the season you’re in and a wise son you will be. But what a waste when an incompetent son sleeps through his day of opportunity!

Proverbs 11:24

Generosity brings prosperity, but withholding from charity brings poverty.

Proverbs 12:24

If you want to reign in life, don’t sit on your hands. Instead, work hard at doing what’s right, for the slacker will end up working to make someone else succeed.

Proverbs 12:27

A passive person won’t even complete a project, but a passionate person makes good use of his time, wealth, and energy.

Proverbs 13:4

The slacker wants it all and ends up with nothing, but the hard worker ends up with all that he longed for.

Proverbs 18:9

The one who is too lazy to look for work is the same one who wastes his life away.

Proverbs 19:15

Go ahead—be lazy and passive. But you’ll go hungry if you live that way.

Proverbs 19:24

There are some people who pretend they’re hurt— deadbeats who won’t even work to feed themselves.

Proverbs 20:13

If you spend all your time sleeping, you’ll grow poor. So wake up, sleepyhead! Don’t sleep on the job. And then there will be plenty of food on your table.

Proverbs 20:4

If you’re too lazy to plant seed, it’s too bad when you have no harvest on which to feed.

Proverbs 21:5

Brilliant ideas pay off and bring you prosperity, but making hasty, impatient decisions will only lead to financial loss.

John 6:27

Why would you strive for food that is perishable and not be passionate to seek the food of eternal life, which never spoils? I, the Son of Man, am ready to give you what matters most, for God the Father has destined me for this purpose.”

1 Corinthians 15:58

So now, beloved ones, stand firm, stable, and enduring. Live your lives with an unshakable confidence. We know that we prosper and excel in every season by serving the Lord, because we are assured that our union with the Lord makes our labor productive with fruit that endures.