Desires Of The Diligent Are Fully Satisfied

Proverbs 13:4-6 – A sluggard’s appetite is never filled, but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied. The righteous hate what is false, but the wicked make themselves a stench and bring shame on themselves. Righteousness guards the person of integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

Proverbs 10:4 – Lazy hands make for poverty, but diligent hands bring wealth.

Proverbs 19:26 – Whoever robs their father and drives out their mother is a child who brings shame and disgrace.

Proverbs 2:22 – For the upright will live in the land, and the blameless will remain in it; but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be torn from it.

Psalm 25:21 – May integrity and uprightness protect me, because my hope, Lord, is in you.

Application:

• ·         Many proverbs praise diligence and the profit it brings, and they condemn laziness as a cause of hunger and poverty.
• ·         Children were expected to take care of their parents when they were sick or elderly. Robbing them and attacking or calling down curses on them were serious crimes.
• ·         God warned that if the people refuse to obey him, they “will be uprooted from the land”.
• ·         Pardon was not enough; David prayed that God would enable him to live a life of unmarred moral rectitude—even as God is “good and upright”.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV