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Proverbs 31:27
She looks well to the ways of her household, and eats not the bread of idleness.
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The Hedge of Thorns and the Plain Way
... second observation is this: if we avoid sloth we have ... it had been sufficient to shake
off idleness and become ... sit up late, and to eat the bread of carefulness ...
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One Lion Two Lions no Lion at All
... he is in business on his own account, idleness is usually a ... the true faith bids every
man eat his own bread. ... men must work, or find disease and death in sloth. ...
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The Late Work of God in North America
... 14. And is not idleness naturally joined with "fullness of bread?" Doth
not sloth easily spring from luxury? It did so here in an ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 131 the late work.htm

On Redeeming the Time
... who are not obliged to work for our bread lie till ... It breeds and continually increases
sloth, so often objected to ... person who is a slave to this idleness is in ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 93 on redeeming the.htm

Letter viii. Public and Social Worship, and Sabbath Employments.
... you think, to see a child throwing away the bread his mother ... There is no room, then,
for the indulgence of idleness, indolence, or sloth, upon the ...
/.../letter viii public and social.htm

Matt. x. 34
... there come to thee a poor man wanting bread, there is ... not as making a law in favor
of idleness, far from ... earnestly wishing all to be employed; for sloth is the ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on the gospel of saint matthew/homily xxxv matt x 34.htm

2 Thessalonians iii. 5-Mar
... may not by these means lead them to sloth, and lest ... "That they may eat their own
bread," says he ... ourselves from one who was only supported in idleness, how much ...
/.../homily v 2 thessalonians iii.htm

Rom. viii. 12, 13
... Dost thou not shudder, man, and blush to call him an impostor for bread? ... and take
so over exact an account of him, accusing him of idleness and sloth? ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on acts and romans/homily xiv rom viii 12.htm

A Discourse of the Building, Nature, Excellency, and Government of ...
... If that be true, man doth not live by bread, He that has nothing else, must needs
be dead; Take bread for what can ... Not that the sloth Of idleness should be ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/a discourse of the building.htm

The Nuns of the Primitive Church
... for the purpose of making the youthful saint some bread. ... Yet, idleness on the part
of its subjects was far from ... Sloth was not possible with them; for they were ...
/.../brittain/women of early christianity/vi the nuns of the.htm