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Proverbs 20:13

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Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
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  1. Proverbs 19:15Rank 1 from verse 13
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    15Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

  2. Romans 12:11Rank 2 from verse 13
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    11Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

  3. Proverbs 10:4Rank 3 from verse 13
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    4He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

  4. Proverbs 12:11Rank 4 from verse 13
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    11He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.

  5. Romans 13:11Rank 5 from verse 13
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    11And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

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Proverbs 20:13

COMBINED MEANING

love

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Sense 1: Affection, attachment, delight, goodwill, commitment, or devotion. Sense 2: To regard with affection or devotion. Sense 3: A beloved person.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

sleep

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Sense 1: Natural bodily rest with suspended waking activity; figuratively, inattention or inactivity; or death described as sleep. Sense 2: To rest in sleep; figuratively, to lie in death.

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lest

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For fear that, to prevent the possibility that, or so that an undesired or warned-of result may not occur.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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thou

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The singular second-person subject pronoun, meaning you when directly addressing one person, being, or individually treated addressee.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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poverty

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The condition of being poor, destitute, or lacking necessary provision.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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open

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Sense 1: Unclosed, uncovered, or manifest. Sense 2: As a verb, to uncover, reveal, or explain.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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eyes

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The bodily organs of sight; by extension, sight, attention, observation, perception, understanding, desire, judgment, estimation, favour, or the presence and view before which something occurs.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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satisfied

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Past-tense or past-participial form of satisfy (to fill, content, supply sufficiently, or meet what is required).

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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12The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them.

13Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

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14It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.

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