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Proverbs 24:30

Proverbs 24:30 (MSG)
One day I walked by the field of an old lazybones, and then passed the vineyard of a lout; They were overgrown with weeds, thick with thistles, all the fences broken down. I took a long look and pondered what I saw; the fields preached me a sermon and I listened: "A nap here, a nap there, a day off here, a day off there, sit back, take it easy—do you know what comes next? Just this: You can look forward to a dirt-poor life, with poverty as your permanent houseguest!"

2 Corinthians 9:10

2 Corinthians 9:10 (AMP)
And [God] Who provides seed for the sower and bread for eating will also provide and multiply your [resources for] sowing and increase the fruits of your righteousness [which manifests itself in active goodness, kindness, and charity].

2 Corinthians 9:9

2 Corinthians 9:9 (AMP)
As it is written, He [the benevolent person] scatters abroad; He gives to the poor; His deeds of justice and goodness and kindness and benevolence will go on and endure forever!

Genesis 37:11

Genesis 37:11 (AMP)
Joseph’s brothers envied him and were jealous of him, but his father observed the saying and pondered over it.

Genesis 37:8

Genesis 37:8 (AMP)
His brothers said to him, Shall you indeed reign over us? Or are you going to have us as your subjects and dominate us? And they hated him all the more for his dreams and for what he said.