Proverbs 12:24 Cross References

Proverbs 12:24

24: Work hard and become a leader; be lazy and become a slave.

Proverbs 21:25

  1. The desires of lazy people will be their ruin, for their hands refuse to work.
  2. They are always greedy for more, while the godly love to give!

Proverbs 10:4

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

Proverbs 12:27

  1. Lazy people don't even cook the game they catch, but the diligent make use of everything they find.

Proverbs 19:15

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

Genesis 49:15

  1. When he sees how good the countryside is, how pleasant the land, he will bend his shoulder to the task and submit to forced labor.

1 Kings 11:28

  1. Jeroboam was a very capable young man, and when Solomon saw how industrious he was, he put him in charge of the labor force from the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh.

Proverbs 17:2

  1. A wise slave will rule over the master's shameful sons and will share their inheritance.

Proverbs 22:13

  1. The lazy person is full of excuses, saying, "If I go outside, I might meet a lion in the street and be killed!"

Proverbs 22:29

  1. Do you see any truly competent workers? They will serve kings rather than ordinary people.

Proverbs 13:4

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

1 Kings 9:21

  1. These were descendants of the nations that Israel had not completely destroyed. So Solomon conscripted them for his labor force, and they serve in the labor force to this day.

Proverbs 24:30

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

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.

1 Kings 12:20

  1. When the people of Israel learned of Jeroboam's return from Egypt, they called an assembly and made him king over all Israel. So only the tribe of Judah remained loyal to the family of David.
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