In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.


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Proverbs 23 4 Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
Ecclesiastes 3 9 What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
Ecclesiastes 1 3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
1 Corinthians 4 12 And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
Proverbs 16 26 He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.
Ecclesiastes 1 8 All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
Jeremiah 7 8 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
Ecclesiastes 2 11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Haggai 1 6 Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
1 Timothy 6 10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Psalms 44 12 Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.
Ecclesiastes 10 19 A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.
Ecclesiastes 6 7 All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
Proverbs 13 11 Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
Philemon 1 11 Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me:
Ecclesiastes 2 21 For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.
James 5 4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
Luke 10 7 And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.
Exodus 21 35 And if one man's ox hurt another's, that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead ox also they shall divide.
1 Timothy 4 8 For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
Psalms 30 9 What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
Jeremiah 12 13 They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
Proverbs 10 4 He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
Proverbs 27 24 For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?
Proverbs 13 8 The ransom of a man's life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke.
Ecclesiastes 5 12 The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
Job 22 2 Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?
Leviticus 19 13 Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.
Isaiah 21 2 A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
John 4 38 I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.
Ecclesiastes 5 13 There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
Genesis 14 23 That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:
Proverbs 20 14 It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
Ecclesiastes 2 18 Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
Job 28 13 Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.
Proverbs 15 6 In the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble.
Job 9 29 If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
Ecclesiastes 5 16 And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?
Proverbs 18 6 A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.
Psalms 144 14 That our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets.
Psalms 119 72 The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.
Proverbs 22 7 The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
John 6 27 Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
1 Corinthians 10 24 Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth.
Proverbs 20 15 There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
2 Kings 12 15 Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully.
Psalms 94 4 How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
Job 35 16 Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
1 Corinthians 12 7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
Proverbs 11 4 Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.