Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well.

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Dear friend, I hope all is well with you and that you are as healthy in body as you are strong in spirit.

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10 If the ax is dull
    and its edge unsharpened,
more strength is needed,
    but skill will bring success.

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10 Using a dull ax requires great strength,
    so sharpen the blade.
That’s the value of wisdom;
    it helps you succeed.

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Sow your seed in the morning,
    and at evening let your hands not be idle,(A)
for you do not know which will succeed,
    whether this or that,
    or whether both will do equally well.

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Plant your seed in the morning and keep busy all afternoon, for you don’t know if profit will come from one activity or another—or maybe both.

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10 But by the grace(A) of God I am what I am, and his grace to me(B) was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them(C)—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.(D)

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10 But whatever I am now, it is all because God poured out his special favor on me—and not without results. For I have worked harder than any of the other apostles; yet it was not I but God who was working through me by his grace.

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Lazy hands make for poverty,(A)
    but diligent hands bring wealth.(B)

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Lazy people are soon poor;
    hard workers get rich.

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