Proverbs 12:11

Whoever works his land will have plenty, but chasing fantasies shows a lack of sense. Diligent, realistic labor provides, while empty schemes do not.

Cross-references · 22

• Prov 28:19The one who works his land will have plenty of food, but whoever chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.
• Prov 14:23There is profit in all labor, but mere talk leads only to poverty.
• 1 Th 4:11–12and to aspire to live quietly, to attend to your own matters, and to work with your own hands, as we instructed you.
• Ps 128:2For when you eat the fruit of your labor, blessings and prosperity will be yours.
• Eph 4:28He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing good with his own hands, that he may have something to share with the one in need.
• 2 Th 3:8nor did we eat anyone’s food without paying for it. Instead, in labor and toil, we worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to any of you.
• Prov 9:6Leave your folly behind, and you will live; walk in the way of understanding.”
• Prov 7:7I saw among the simple, I noticed among the youths, a young man lacking judgment,
• Prov 14:4Where there are no oxen, the manger is empty, but an abundant harvest comes through the strength of the ox.
• Gen 3:19By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
• Prov 13:20He who walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed.
• Prov 6:32He who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself.
• Prov 4:14–15Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evildoers.
• Prov 1:10–19My son, if sinners entice you, do not yield to them.
• Titus 1:10–11For many are rebellious and full of empty talk and deception, especially those of the circumcision,
• Prov 9:13The woman named Folly is loud; she is naive and knows nothing.
• Ps 26:4I do not sit with deceitful men, nor keep company with hypocrites.
• Judg 9:4So they gave him seventy shekels of silver from the temple of Baal-berith, with which Abimelech hired some worthless and reckless men to follow him.
• Prov 9:16“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” she says to him who lacks judgment.
• Jonah 2:8Those who cling to worthless idols forsake His loving devotion.
• Prov 27:27You will have plenty of goats’ milk to feed you—food for your household and nourishment for your maidservants.
• Prov 13:23Abundant food is in the fallow ground of the poor, but without justice it is swept away.

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