Proverbs 16:26

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Proverbs 16:24–28 · Berean Standard Bible

24 Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.

25 There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.

26 A worker’s appetite works for him because his hunger drives him onward.

27 A worthless man digs up evil, and his speech is like a scorching fire.

28 A perverse man spreads dissension, and a gossip divides close friends.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Proverbs 9:12

If you are wise, you are wise to your own advantage; but if you scoff, you alone will bear the consequences.

Proverbs 14:23

There is profit in all labor, but mere talk leads only to poverty.

Ecclesiastes 6:7

All a man’s labor is for his mouth, yet his appetite is never satisfied.

1 Thessalonians 4:11

and to aspire to live quietly, to attend to your own matters, and to work with your own hands, as we instructed you.

1 Thessalonians 4:12

Then you will behave properly toward outsiders, without being dependent on anyone.

2 Thessalonians 3:8

nor did we eat anyone’s food without paying for it. Instead, in labor and toil, we worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to any of you.

2 Thessalonians 3:9

Not that we lack this right, but we wanted to offer ourselves as an example for you to imitate.

2 Thessalonians 3:10

For even while we were with you, we gave you this command: “If anyone is unwilling to work, he shall not eat.”

2 Thessalonians 3:11

Yet we hear that some of you are leading undisciplined lives and accomplishing nothing but being busybodies.

2 Thessalonians 3:12

We command and urge such people by our Lord Jesus Christ to begin working quietly to earn their own living.