Ecclesiastes 10:18 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 10:18

18: Laziness lets the roof leak, and soon the rafters begin to rot.

A wise woman builds her house; a foolish woman tears hers down with her own hands.

I walked by the field of a lazy person, the vineyard of one lacking sense.
I saw that it was overgrown with thorns. It was covered with weeds, and its walls were broken down.
Then, as I looked and thought about it, I learned this lesson:
A little extra sleep, a little more slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest--
and poverty will pounce on you like a bandit; scarcity will attack you like an armed robber.

If you are too lazy to plow in the right season, you will have no food at the harvest.

Our great desire is that you will keep right on loving others as long as life lasts, in order to make certain that what you hope for will come true.

for they are on their way to poverty. Too much sleep clothes a person with rags.

So make every effort to apply the benefits of these promises to your life. Then your faith will produce a life of moral excellence. A life of moral excellence leads to knowing God better.
Knowing God leads to self-control. Self-control leads to patient endurance, and patient endurance leads to godliness.
Godliness leads to love for other Christians, and finally you will grow to have genuine love for everyone.
The more you grow like this, the more you will become productive and useful in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
But those who fail to develop these virtues are blind or, at least, very shortsighted. They have already forgotten that God has cleansed them from their old life of sin.

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