Proverbs 24:31
"And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down."
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- Isaiah 5:5
"And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:"
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 10:18
"By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through."
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 4:3
"For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 22:13
"The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets."
Read in chapter → - Genesis 3:17
"And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;"
Read in chapter → - Matthew 13:22
"He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 23:21
"For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags."
Read in chapter → - Hebrews 6:8
"But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned."
Read in chapter → - Job 31:40
"Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 20:4
"The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing."
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