Proverbs 10:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps in harvest is a son who causes shame.

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  • Prov 6:8 : 8 Provides her food in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.
  • Prov 17:2 : 2 A wise servant will rule over a son who causes shame, and will share the inheritance among the brethren.
  • Prov 19:26 : 26 He who wastes his father, and chases away his mother, is a son who causes shame, and brings reproach.
  • Prov 30:25 : 25 The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their food in the summer;
  • Prov 12:4 : 4 A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband, but she who causes shame is as rottenness in his bones.
  • Prov 6:6 : 6 Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
  • Isa 55:6-7 : 6 Seek the LORD while he may be found, call upon him while he is near. 7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

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  • Prov 19:15
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    15Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

  • Prov 15:19-20
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  • Prov 11:29-30
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  • Prov 18:9
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  • Prov 13:23-24
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