Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense.
Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty.
In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.
and to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you, so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one.
You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.
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.
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.
Leave your simple ways, and live, and walk in the way of insight.”
Where there are no oxen, the manger is clean, but abundant crops come by the strength of the ox.
and I have seen among the simple, I have perceived among the youths, a young man lacking sense,
Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
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.”
For there are many who are insubordinate, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision party. They must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for shameful gain what they ought not to teach.
He who commits adultery lacks sense; he who does it destroys himself.
Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of the evil. Avoid it; do not go on it; turn away from it and pass on.
My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent. If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood; let us ambush the innocent without reason; like Sheol let us swallow them alive, and whole, like those who go down to the pit; we shall find all precious goods, we shall fill our houses with plunder; throw in your lot among us; we will all have one purse”—
“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” And to him who lacks sense she says,
The woman Folly is loud; she is seductive and knows nothing.
I do not sit with men of falsehood, nor do I consort with hypocrites.
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.
Those who pay regard to vain idols forsake their hope of steadfast love.
There will be enough goats' milk for your food, for the food of your household and maintenance for your girls.
The fallow ground of the poor would yield much food, but it is swept away through injustice.
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