4 No matter how much a lazy person may want something, he will never get it. A hard worker will get everything he wants.

26 A laborer's appetite makes him work harder, because he wants to satisfy his hunger.

9 A lazy person is as bad as someone who is destructive.

18 Here is what I have found out: the best thing we can do is eat and drink and enjoy what we have worked for during the short life that God has given us; this is our fate.

1 After this the Lord chose another seventy-two men and sent them out two by two, to go ahead of him to every town and place where he himself was about to go. 2 He said to them, “There is a large harvest, but few workers to gather it in. Pray to the owner of the harvest that he will send out workers to gather in his harvest.