Proverbs 28:19

KJV1611 – Modern English

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who follows vain persons shall have poverty enough.

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  • Prov 12:11 : 11 He who tills his land will be satisfied with bread, but he who follows vain persons is void of understanding.
  • Prov 13:20 : 20 He who walks with wise men shall be wise, but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
  • Prov 23:20-21 : 20 Do not be among winebibbers, among gluttonous eaters of meat: 21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty, and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
  • Prov 27:23-27 : 23 Be diligent to know the state of your flocks, and look well to your herds. 24 For riches are not forever; does a crown endure to every generation? 25 The hay appears, and the tender grass shows itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered. 26 The lambs will provide your clothing, and the goats are the price of the field. 27 And you will have goats' milk enough for your food, for the food of your household, and for the sustenance of your maidens.
  • Luke 15:12-17 : 12 And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me. And he divided to them his livelihood. 13 And not many days after, the younger son gathered everything together, and took his journey to a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. 14 And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. 15 And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs. 16 And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the pigs ate: and no one gave him anything. 17 And when he came to himself, he said, How many of my father's hired servants have bread enough to spare, and I perish with hunger!
  • Judg 9:4 : 4 And they gave him seventy pieces of silver from the house of Baal-berith, with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless men, who followed him.
  • Prov 14:4 : 4 Where there are no oxen, the crib is clean, but much increase comes by the strength of the ox.

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  • Prov 12:11
    91%

    11 He who tills his land will be satisfied with bread, but he who follows vain persons is void of understanding.

  • Prov 28:20-22
    3 verses
    82%

    20 A faithful person shall abound with blessings, but he who hastens to be rich shall not be innocent.

    21 To show partiality is not good; for a piece of bread that man will transgress.

    22 He who hastens to be rich has an evil eye and does not consider that poverty shall come upon him.

  • Prov 13:23
    76%

    23 Much food is in the tillage of the poor, but there is that which is destroyed for lack of judgment.

  • Prov 13:11
    76%

    11 Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished, but he who gathers by labor shall increase.

  • Prov 10:4
    76%

    4 He becomes poor who deals with a slack hand, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

  • Prov 22:16
    75%

    16 He who oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he who gives to the rich, shall surely come to want.

  • Prov 11:26-29
    4 verses
    75%

    26 The people shall curse him who withholds grain, but blessing shall be on the head of him who sells it.

    27 He who diligently seeks good procures favor, but he who seeks evil, it shall come to him.

    28 He who trusts in his riches shall fall, but the righteous shall flourish like a branch.

    29 He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind, and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.

  • Prov 19:15
    75%

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

  • Prov 21:5
    75%

    5 The thoughts of the diligent lead only to abundance, but everyone who is hasty, only to poverty.

  • Prov 28:27
    75%

    27 He who gives to the poor shall not lack, but he who hides his eyes will have many curses.

  • Prov 28:8
    74%

    8 He who by usury and unjust gain increases his wealth gathers it for one who will pity the poor.

  • Prov 11:24
    74%

    24 There is one who scatters, and yet increases; and there is one who withholds more than is right, and it leads to poverty.

  • Prov 22:8-9
    2 verses
    74%

    8 He who sows iniquity shall reap vanity, and the rod of his anger shall fail.

    9 He who has a bountiful eye shall be blessed, for he gives of his bread to the poor.

  • Prov 14:23
    74%

    23 In all labor there is profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.

  • Prov 13:7
    74%

    7 There is one who makes himself rich, yet has nothing; there is one who makes himself poor, yet has great riches.

  • Prov 21:17
    74%

    17 He who loves pleasure will be a poor man; he who loves wine and oil will not be rich.

  • Prov 16:26
    73%

    26 He who labors, labors for himself, for his mouth craves it of him.

  • Prov 28:6
    73%

    6 Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.

  • Prov 20:4
    72%

    4 The sluggard will not plow because of the cold; therefore he shall beg during harvest, and have nothing.

  • Prov 28:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10 Whoever causes the righteous to go astray in an evil way will fall into his own pit, but the upright shall have good things in possession.

    11 The rich man is wise in his own eyes, but the poor who has understanding searches him out.

  • Prov 19:1
    72%

    1 Better is the poor who walks in his integrity, than he who is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.

  • Prov 6:11
    72%

    11 So shall your poverty come upon you like a traveler, and your need like an armed man.

  • Prov 28:25
    72%

    25 He who is of a proud heart stirs up strife, but he who puts his trust in the LORD shall be made prosperous.

  • Eccl 5:10
    72%

    10 He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he who loves abundance with increase; this also is vanity.

  • Prov 13:4
    72%

    4 The soul of the sluggard desires and has nothing, but the soul of the diligent shall be made rich.

  • Prov 28:3
    72%

    3 A poor man who oppresses the poor is like a sweeping rain that leaves no food.

  • Ps 39:6
    71%

    6 Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are troubled in vain: he heaps up riches, and does not know who shall gather them.

  • Prov 20:13
    71%

    13 Do not love sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

  • Luke 12:21
    71%

    21 So is he that lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

  • Prov 23:4
    71%

    4 Do not labor to be rich; cease from your own wisdom.

  • 2 Cor 9:6
    71%

    6 But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly; and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

  • Prov 10:15-16
    2 verses
    71%

    15 The rich man's wealth is his strong city, the destruction of the poor is their poverty.

    16 The labor of the righteous tends to life, the fruit of the wicked to sin.

  • Prov 11:18
    71%

    18 The wicked works a deceitful work, but he who sows righteousness shall have a sure reward.

  • Ps 107:37
    71%

    37 And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase.

  • Ps 128:2
    71%

    2 For you shall eat the labor of your hands; happy shall you be, and it shall be well with you.

  • Ps 129:7
    71%

    7 With which the mower does not fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves his bosom.

  • 1 Tim 6:9
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    9 But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.

  • Prov 13:18
    71%

    18 Poverty and shame shall be to him who refuses instruction, but he who regards reproof shall be honored.

  • Prov 12:27
    71%

    27 The lazy man does not roast what he took in hunting, but diligence is a man's precious possession.

  • Prov 24:34
    71%

    34 So shall your poverty come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.

  • Eccl 5:12
    70%

    12 The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

  • Prov 19:4
    70%

    4 Wealth makes many friends, but the poor is separated from his neighbor.

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