Proverbs 20:4 Cross References

Proverbs 20:4

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

Proverbs 19:15

  1. A lazy person sleeps soundly--and goes hungry.

Proverbs 10:4

  1. Lazy people are soon poor; hard workers get rich.

Proverbs 26:13

  1. The lazy person is full of excuses, saying, "I can't go outside because there might be a lion on the road! Yes, I'm sure there's a lion out there!"
  2. As a door turns back and forth on its hinges, so the lazy person turns over in bed.
  3. Some people are so lazy that they won't lift a finger to feed themselves.
  4. Lazy people consider themselves smarter than seven wise counselors.

2 Peter 1:5

  1. 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.
  2. Knowing God leads to self-control. Self-control leads to patient endurance, and patient endurance leads to godliness.
  3. Godliness leads to love for other Christians, and finally you will grow to have genuine love for everyone.
  4. The more you grow like this, the more you will become productive and useful in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
  5. 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.

Proverbs 13:4

  1. Lazy people want much but get little, but those who work hard will prosper and be satisfied.

Proverbs 24:34

  1. and poverty will pounce on you like a bandit; scarcity will attack you like an armed robber.

Matthew 25:3

  1. The five who were foolish took no oil for their lamps,
  2. but the other five were wise enough to take along extra oil.
  3. When the bridegroom was delayed, they all lay down and slept.
  4. At midnight they were roused by the shout, 'Look, the bridegroom is coming! Come out and welcome him!'
  5. "All the bridesmaids got up and prepared their lamps.

Proverbs 19:24

  1. Some people are so lazy that they won't even lift a finger to feed themselves.

Matthew 25:24

  1. "Then the servant with the one bag of gold came and said, 'Sir, I know you are a hard man, harvesting crops you didn't plant and gathering crops you didn't cultivate.
  2. I was afraid I would lose your money, so I hid it in the earth and here it is.'
  3. "But the master replied, 'You wicked and lazy servant! You think I'm a hard man, do you, harvesting crops I didn't plant and gathering crops I didn't cultivate?
  4. Well, you should at least have put my money into the bank so I could have some interest.
  5. Take the money from this servant and give it to the one with the ten bags of gold.

Proverbs 6:10

  1. A little extra sleep, a little more slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest--
  2. and poverty will pounce on you like a bandit; scarcity will attack you like an armed robber.
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