Waste

When they were filled, he said to his disciples, “Gather up the broken pieces which are left over, that nothing be lost.”

Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

“‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap into the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest: you shall leave them for the poor, and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.’”

One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.

The slothful man doesn’t roast his game, but the possessions of diligent men are prized.

An abundance of food is in poor people’s fields, but injustice sweeps it away.

When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard—very costly. She broke the jar, and poured it over his head. — read the full passage →

“Behold, I have created the smith who blows the fire of coals, and brings out a weapon for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.

While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard—very costly. She broke the jar, and poured it over his head. — read the full passage →

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

for I give you sound learning. Don’t forsake my law. — read the full passage →

“‘So you shall not pollute the land in which you are; for blood pollutes the land. No atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.

Know therefore that Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep? — read the full passage →

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

“I have yet many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now.