Proverbs 21:17; Proverbs 23:20–21; Proverbs 28:19; Ephesians 4:28

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Proverbs 21:17

17  Whoever loves pleasure will be a poor man;

he who loves wine and oil will not be rich.


Proverbs 23:20–21

20  Be not among zdrunkards1

or among agluttonous eaters of meat,

21  for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty,

and bslumber will clothe them with rags.


Proverbs 28:19

19  iWhoever works his land will have plenty of bread,

but he who follows worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty.


Ephesians 4:28

28 Let the thief no longer steal, but rather ylet him labor, zdoing honest work with his own hands, so athat he may have something to share with anyone in need.