23 In all grievous labor there is advantage, Yet mere speech of the lips leads only to want."
Proverbs 14:23 Cross References - CLV
Proverbs 10:10
10 He who winks the eye is making grief, And the one foolish of lips shall flounder."
Proverbs 12:24
24 The hand of the industrious shall rule, Yet an indolent man shall become tributary."
Proverbs 28:19
19 He who serves his ground shall be fully repaid with bread, Yet he who pursues empty dreams shall be fully repaid with destitution."
Ecclesiastes 5:3
3 For as dreams come with much responsibility, So the voice of a stupid person comes with many words."
John 6:27
27 Do not work for the food which is perishing, but for the food which is remaining for life eonian, which the Son of Mankind will be giving to you, for this One God, the Father, seals."
2 Thessalonians 3:10-12
10 For even when we were with you, we gave this charge to you: that "If anyone is not willing to work, neither let him eat."
11 For we are hearing that some among you are walking disorderly, working at nothing, but are meddling."
12 Now such we are charging and entreating in the Lord Jesus Christ, that, working with quietness, they may be eating their own bread."
1 Timothy 5:13
13 Yet at the same time they are learning to be idle also, wandering about the homes. Yet not only are they idle, but gossips also, and meddlers, speaking what they must not."