Bible verse

Proverbs 21:5

The plans of the diligent bring plenty, as surely as haste leads to poverty.

Proverbs 21:5 · BSB

Proverbs 21:5 in context

The verses around it, from Proverbs 21.

1 The king’s heart is a waterway in the hand of the LORD; He directs it where He pleases.

2 All a man’s ways seem right to him, but the LORD weighs the heart.

3 To do righteousness and justice is more desirable to the LORD than sacrifice.

4 Haughty eyes and a proud heart—the guides of the wicked—are sin.

5 The plans of the diligent bring plenty, as surely as haste leads to poverty.

6 Making a fortune by a lying tongue is a vanishing mist, a deadly pursuit.

7 The violence of the wicked will sweep them away because they refuse to do what is just.

8 The way of a guilty man is crooked, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.

9 Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.

Read all of Proverbs 21

Proverbs 21:5 in other translations

KJV

The thoughts of the diligent [tend] only to plenteousness; but of every one [that is] hasty only to want.

ASV

The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; But every one that is hasty hasteth only to want.

ERV

The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness: but every one that is hasty hasteth only to want.

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