Wasting

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

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

“‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest. — read the full passage →

“For it is like a man, going into another country, who called his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them. — read the full passage →

But when his disciples saw this, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste?

I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; — read the full passage →

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

redeeming the time, because the days are evil. — read the full passage →

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

As the door turns on its hinges, so does the sluggard on his bed.

So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.

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

The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.

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

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, — read the full passage →

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might. — read the full passage →

Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise; — read the full passage →

For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time. — read the full passage →

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

He said therefore, “A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return. — read the full passage →

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise; — read the full passage →

Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy. — read the full passage →

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

This day shall be to you for a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast to Yahweh: throughout your generations you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever. — read the full passage →

You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, — read the full passage →

I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

“Then if any man tells you, ‘Behold, here is the Christ,’ or, ‘There,’ don’t believe it. — read the full passage →

“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock. — read the full passage →

This is what Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.

Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.

The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, but the path of the upright is a highway.

The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

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

Men don’t despise a thief, if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry:

“Yahweh, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am. — read the full passage →

Yahweh will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with fiery heat, with the sword, with blight, and with mildew. They will pursue you until you perish.

but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the animal of the field shall eat. In the same way, you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

Everyone had four faces, and each one of them had four wings.