Being lazy will make you poor, but hard work will make you rich.

Don't associate with people who drink too much wine or stuff themselves with food.

Drunkards and gluttons will be reduced to poverty. If all you do is eat and sleep, you will soon be wearing rags.

I walked through the fields and vineyards of a lazy, stupid person.

I looked at this, thought about it, and learned a lesson from it:

but while you are asleep, poverty will attack you like an armed robber.

'You bad and lazy servant!' his master said. 'You knew, did you, that I reap harvests where I did not plant, and gather crops where I did not scatter seed?

Work hard and do not be lazy. Serve the Lord with a heart full of devotion.

We do not want you to become lazy, but to be like those who believe and are patient, and so receive what God has promised.

Anyone who thinks it isn't wrong to steal from his parents is no better than a common thief.

My voice is as sad and lonely as the cries of a jackal or an ostrich.

After a few days the younger son sold his part of the property and left home with the money. He went to a country far away, where he wasted his money in reckless living.

He spent everything he had. Then a severe famine spread over that country, and he was left without a thing.

Jesus said to his disciples, "There was once a rich man who had a servant who managed his property. The rich man was told that the manager was wasting his master's money,

so he called him in and said, 'What is this I hear about you? Turn in a complete account of your handling of my property, because you cannot be my manager any longer.'