These are Bible references on different topics.
Building A Strong Nation
Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.
Business
Proverbs 3:9-10 Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce; then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine.
Proverbs 6:1-11 My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger, if you are snared in the words of your mouth, caught in the words of your mouth, then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have come into the hand of your neighbor: go, hasten, and plead urgently with your neighbor. Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber; save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler. Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and mbe wise. Without having any chief, officer, or ruler, she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest. How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep? A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.
Proverbs 10:2 Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 10: 4-5 A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich. He who gathers in summer is a prudent son, but he who sleeps in harvest is a son who brings shame.
Proverbs 11:1 A false balance is an abomination to the LORD, but a just weight is his delight.
Proverbs 11:4 Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 11:15 Whoever puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer harm, but he who hates striking hands in pledge is secure.
Proverbs 11:24-26 One gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and none who waters will himself be watered. The people curse him who holds back grain, but a blessing is on the head of him who sells it.
Proverbs 12:11-12 Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense. Whoever is wicked covets the spoil of evildoers, but the root of the righteous bears fruit.
Proverbs 12:14 From the fruit of his mouth a man is satisfied with good, and the work of a man's hand comes back to him.
Proverbs 12:24 The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor.
Proverbs 12:27 Whoever is slothful will not roast his game, but the diligent man will get precious wealth.
Proverbs 13:11 Wealth gained hastily will dwindle, but whoever gathers little by little will increase it.
Proverbs 13:22-23 A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the sinner's wealth is laid up for the righteous. The fallow ground of the poor would yield much food, but it is swept away through injustice.
Proverbs 14:4 Where there are no oxen, the manger is clean, but abundant crops come by the strength of the ox.
Proverbs 14:15 The simple believes everything, but the prudent gives thought to his steps.
Proverbs 14:23-24 In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty. The crown of the wise is their wealth, but the folly of fools brings folly.
Proverbs 15:6 In the house of the righteous there is much treasure, but trouble befalls the income of the wicked.
Proverbs 15:16 Better is a little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble with it.
Proverbs 15:19 The way of a sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a level highway.
Proverbs 15:22 Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed.
Proverbs 15:27 Whoever is greedy for unjust gain troubles his own household, but he who hates bribes will live.
Proverbs 16:3 Commit your work to the LORD, and your plans will be established.
Proverbs 16:8 Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice.
Proverbs 16:11 A just balance and scales are the LORD's; all the weights in the bag are his work.
Proverbs 16:16 How much better to get wisdom than gold! To get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.
Proverbs 16:26 A worker's appetite works for him; his mouth urges him on.
Proverbs 17:16 Why should a fool have money in his hand to buy wisdom when he has no sense?
Proverbs 17:18 One who lacks sense gives a pledge and puts up security in the presence of his neighbor.
Proverbs 17:23 The wicked accepts a bribe in secret to pervert the ways of justice.
Proverbs 18:9 Whoever is slack in his work is a brother to him who destroys.
Proverbs 19:15 Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger.
Proverbs 19:17 Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the LORD, and he will repay him for his deed.
Proverbs 19:24 The sluggard buries his hand in the dish and will not even bring it back to his mouth.
Proverbs 20:4 The sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing.
Proverbs 20:10 Unequal weights and unequal measures are both alike an abomination to the LORD.
Proverbs 20:13-18 Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread. “Bad, Bad,” says the buyer, but when he goes away, then he boasts. There is gold and abundance of costly stones, but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel. Take a man's garment when he has put up security for a stranger, and hold it in pledge when he puts up security for foreigners.Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but afterward his mouth will be full of gravel. Plans are established by counsel; by wise guidance wage war.
Proverbs 20:21 An inheritance gained hastily in the beginning will not be blessed in the end.
Proverbs 20:23 Unequal weights are an abomination to the LORD, and false scales are not good.
Proverbs 21:5-6 The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty. The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death.
Proverbs 21:17 Whoever loves pleasure will be a poor man; he who loves wine and oil will not be rich.
Proverbs 21:25 The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.
Proverbs 22:7 The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
Proverbs 22:9 Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.
Proverbs 22:13 The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside! I shall be killed in the streets!”
Proverbs 22:16 Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.
Proverbs 22:22-23 Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate, for the LORD will plead their cause and rob of life those who rob them.
Proverbs 22:26-29 Be not one of those who give pledges, who put up security for debts. If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you? Do not move the ancient landmark that your fathers have set. Do you see a man skillful in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men.
Proverbs 23:4-5 Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist. When your eyes light on it, it is gone, for suddenly it sprouts wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven.
Proverbs 24:3-4 By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches.
Proverbs 24:27 Prepare your work outside; get everything ready for yourself in the field, and after that build your house.
Proverbs 24:30-34 I passed by the field of a sluggard, by the vineyard of a man lacking sense, and behold, it was all overgrown with thorns; the ground was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down. Then I saw and considered it; I looked and received instruction. A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.
Proverbs 27:23-27 Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds, for riches do not last forever; and does a crown endure to all generations? When the grass is gone and the new growth appears and the vegetation of the mountains is gathered, the lambs will provide your clothing, and the goats the price of a field. There will be enough goats' milk for your food, for the food of your household and maintenance for your girls.
Proverbs 28:6 Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is crooked in his ways.
Proverbs 28 :8 Whoever multiplies his wealth by interest and profit gathers it for him who is generous to the poor.
Proverbs 28:11 A rich man is wise in his own eyes, but a poor man who has understanding will find him out.
Proverbs 28:19-22 Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty.A faithful man will abound with blessings, but whoever hastens to be rich will not go unpunished. To show partiality is not good, but for a piece of bread a man will do wrong. A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty will come upon him.
Proverbs 28:25 A greedy man stirs up strife, but the one who trusts in the LORD will be enriched.
Proverbs 30:7-9 Two things I ask of you; deny them not to me before I die: Remove far from me falsehood and lying; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me, lest I be full and deny you and say, “Who is the LORD?” or lest I be poor and steal band profane the name of my God.
Children
Proverbs 13:24 Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.
Proverbs 19:13 A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife's quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.
Proverbs 19:18 Discipline your son, for there is hope; do not set your heart on putting him to death.
Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
Proverbs 23:13-14 Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die. If you strike him with the rod, you will save his soul from Sheol.
Proverbs 29:15 The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.
Proverbs 29:17 Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your heart.
Mind Altering Drugs
Proverbs 20:1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.
Patience
Proverbs 19:2 Desire without knowledge is not good, and whoever makes haste with his feet misses his way.
Sin Nature
Genesis 8:21-22 And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done. While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.”
Wives
Genesis 3:16 To the woman he said,“I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.”
Proverbs 12:4 An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.
Proverbs 19:13-14 A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife's quarreling is a continual dripping of rain. House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.
Proverbs 21:9 It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.
Proverbs 21:19 It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and fretful woman.
Proverbs 25:24 It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.
Work Ethic
Proverbs 26: 13-16 The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road! There is a lion in the streets!” As a door turns on its hinges, so does a sluggard on his bed. The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; it wears him out to bring it back to his mouth. The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who can answer sensibly.
Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.
Business
Proverbs 3:9-10 Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce; then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine.
Proverbs 6:1-11 My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger, if you are snared in the words of your mouth, caught in the words of your mouth, then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have come into the hand of your neighbor: go, hasten, and plead urgently with your neighbor. Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber; save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler. Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and mbe wise. Without having any chief, officer, or ruler, she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest. How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep? A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.
Proverbs 10:2 Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 10: 4-5 A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich. He who gathers in summer is a prudent son, but he who sleeps in harvest is a son who brings shame.
Proverbs 11:1 A false balance is an abomination to the LORD, but a just weight is his delight.
Proverbs 11:4 Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 11:15 Whoever puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer harm, but he who hates striking hands in pledge is secure.
Proverbs 11:24-26 One gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and none who waters will himself be watered. The people curse him who holds back grain, but a blessing is on the head of him who sells it.
Proverbs 12:11-12 Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense. Whoever is wicked covets the spoil of evildoers, but the root of the righteous bears fruit.
Proverbs 12:14 From the fruit of his mouth a man is satisfied with good, and the work of a man's hand comes back to him.
Proverbs 12:24 The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor.
Proverbs 12:27 Whoever is slothful will not roast his game, but the diligent man will get precious wealth.
Proverbs 13:11 Wealth gained hastily will dwindle, but whoever gathers little by little will increase it.
Proverbs 13:22-23 A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the sinner's wealth is laid up for the righteous. The fallow ground of the poor would yield much food, but it is swept away through injustice.
Proverbs 14:4 Where there are no oxen, the manger is clean, but abundant crops come by the strength of the ox.
Proverbs 14:15 The simple believes everything, but the prudent gives thought to his steps.
Proverbs 14:23-24 In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty. The crown of the wise is their wealth, but the folly of fools brings folly.
Proverbs 15:6 In the house of the righteous there is much treasure, but trouble befalls the income of the wicked.
Proverbs 15:16 Better is a little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble with it.
Proverbs 15:19 The way of a sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a level highway.
Proverbs 15:22 Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed.
Proverbs 15:27 Whoever is greedy for unjust gain troubles his own household, but he who hates bribes will live.
Proverbs 16:3 Commit your work to the LORD, and your plans will be established.
Proverbs 16:8 Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice.
Proverbs 16:11 A just balance and scales are the LORD's; all the weights in the bag are his work.
Proverbs 16:16 How much better to get wisdom than gold! To get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.
Proverbs 16:26 A worker's appetite works for him; his mouth urges him on.
Proverbs 17:16 Why should a fool have money in his hand to buy wisdom when he has no sense?
Proverbs 17:18 One who lacks sense gives a pledge and puts up security in the presence of his neighbor.
Proverbs 17:23 The wicked accepts a bribe in secret to pervert the ways of justice.
Proverbs 18:9 Whoever is slack in his work is a brother to him who destroys.
Proverbs 19:15 Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger.
Proverbs 19:17 Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the LORD, and he will repay him for his deed.
Proverbs 19:24 The sluggard buries his hand in the dish and will not even bring it back to his mouth.
Proverbs 20:4 The sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing.
Proverbs 20:10 Unequal weights and unequal measures are both alike an abomination to the LORD.
Proverbs 20:13-18 Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread. “Bad, Bad,” says the buyer, but when he goes away, then he boasts. There is gold and abundance of costly stones, but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel. Take a man's garment when he has put up security for a stranger, and hold it in pledge when he puts up security for foreigners.Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but afterward his mouth will be full of gravel. Plans are established by counsel; by wise guidance wage war.
Proverbs 20:21 An inheritance gained hastily in the beginning will not be blessed in the end.
Proverbs 20:23 Unequal weights are an abomination to the LORD, and false scales are not good.
Proverbs 21:5-6 The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty. The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death.
Proverbs 21:17 Whoever loves pleasure will be a poor man; he who loves wine and oil will not be rich.
Proverbs 21:25 The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.
Proverbs 22:7 The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
Proverbs 22:9 Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.
Proverbs 22:13 The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside! I shall be killed in the streets!”
Proverbs 22:16 Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.
Proverbs 22:22-23 Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate, for the LORD will plead their cause and rob of life those who rob them.
Proverbs 22:26-29 Be not one of those who give pledges, who put up security for debts. If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you? Do not move the ancient landmark that your fathers have set. Do you see a man skillful in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men.
Proverbs 23:4-5 Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist. When your eyes light on it, it is gone, for suddenly it sprouts wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven.
Proverbs 24:3-4 By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches.
Proverbs 24:27 Prepare your work outside; get everything ready for yourself in the field, and after that build your house.
Proverbs 24:30-34 I passed by the field of a sluggard, by the vineyard of a man lacking sense, and behold, it was all overgrown with thorns; the ground was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down. Then I saw and considered it; I looked and received instruction. A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.
Proverbs 27:23-27 Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds, for riches do not last forever; and does a crown endure to all generations? When the grass is gone and the new growth appears and the vegetation of the mountains is gathered, the lambs will provide your clothing, and the goats the price of a field. There will be enough goats' milk for your food, for the food of your household and maintenance for your girls.
Proverbs 28:6 Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is crooked in his ways.
Proverbs 28 :8 Whoever multiplies his wealth by interest and profit gathers it for him who is generous to the poor.
Proverbs 28:11 A rich man is wise in his own eyes, but a poor man who has understanding will find him out.
Proverbs 28:19-22 Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty.A faithful man will abound with blessings, but whoever hastens to be rich will not go unpunished. To show partiality is not good, but for a piece of bread a man will do wrong. A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty will come upon him.
Proverbs 28:25 A greedy man stirs up strife, but the one who trusts in the LORD will be enriched.
Proverbs 30:7-9 Two things I ask of you; deny them not to me before I die: Remove far from me falsehood and lying; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me, lest I be full and deny you and say, “Who is the LORD?” or lest I be poor and steal band profane the name of my God.
Children
Proverbs 13:24 Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.
Proverbs 19:13 A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife's quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.
Proverbs 19:18 Discipline your son, for there is hope; do not set your heart on putting him to death.
Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
Proverbs 23:13-14 Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die. If you strike him with the rod, you will save his soul from Sheol.
Proverbs 29:15 The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.
Proverbs 29:17 Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your heart.
Mind Altering Drugs
Proverbs 20:1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.
Patience
Proverbs 19:2 Desire without knowledge is not good, and whoever makes haste with his feet misses his way.
Sin Nature
Genesis 8:21-22 And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done. While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.”
Wives
Genesis 3:16 To the woman he said,“I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.”
Proverbs 12:4 An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.
Proverbs 19:13-14 A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife's quarreling is a continual dripping of rain. House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.
Proverbs 21:9 It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.
Proverbs 21:19 It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and fretful woman.
Proverbs 25:24 It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.
Work Ethic
Proverbs 26: 13-16 The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road! There is a lion in the streets!” As a door turns on its hinges, so does a sluggard on his bed. The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; it wears him out to bring it back to his mouth. The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who can answer sensibly.