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 28:19He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.
• Prov 14:23In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
• 1 Th 4:11–12And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
• Ps 128:2For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
• Eph 4:28Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
• 2 Th 3:8Neither did we eat any man’s bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:
• Prov 9:6Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
• Prov 7:7And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
• Prov 14:4Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.
• Gen 3:19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
• Prov 13:20He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
• Prov 6:32But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
• Prov 4:14–15Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.
• Prov 1:10–19My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
• Titus 1:10–11For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:
• Prov 9:13A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.
• Ps 26:4I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
• Judg 9:4And they gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver out of the house of Baalberith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light persons, which followed him.
• Prov 9:16Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
• Jonah 2:8They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
• Prov 27:27And thou shalt have goats’ milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens.
• Prov 13:23Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.

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