Proverbs 6:6-11

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⁶Go to the ant, you sluggard;^(A)
    consider its ways and be wise!
⁷It has no commander,
    no overseer or ruler,
⁸yet it stores its provisions in summer^(B)
    and gathers its food at harvest.^(C)

⁹How long will you lie there, you sluggard?^(D)
    When will you get up from your sleep?
¹⁰A little sleep, a little slumber,
    a little folding of the hands to rest^(E)—
¹¹and poverty^(F) will come on you like a thief
    and scarcity like an armed man.

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Colossians 3:23-24

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²³Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, ²⁴since you know that you will receive an inheritance^(A) from the Lord as a reward.^(B) It is the Lord Christ you are serving.

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Hebrews 3:5-6

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⁵“Moses was faithful as a servant^(A) in all God’s house,”^[a]^(B) bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future. ⁶But Christ is faithful as the Son^(C) over God’s house. And we are his house,^(D) if indeed we hold firmly^(E) to our confidence and the hope^(F) in which we glory.