20 Be steadfast in your covenant and be doing it, and grow old in your work. (WEB) 21 Don’t marvel at the works of a sinner, but trust the Lord and stay in your labor; for it is an easy thing in the sight of the Lord to swiftly and suddenly make a poor man rich. (WEB) 22 The Lord’s blessing is in the reward of the godly. He makes his blessing flourish in an hour that comes swiftly. (WEB)
Sirach 11:20–22
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2 Clement 20:2–4
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Sirach 51:29–30
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Sirach 9:10–12
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Proverbs 11:27–29
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Sirach 2:7–9
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Tobit 4:13–15
13 And now, my child, love your kindred, and don’t scorn your kindred and the sons and the daughters of your people in your heart, to take a wife of them; for in scornfulness is destruction and much trouble, and in idleness is decay and great lack; for idleness… (WEB) 14 … (WEB)
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