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Pro 28:19 — He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain [persons] shall have poverty enough.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

that tilleth		Pro 12:11; Pro 14:4; Pro 27:23-27
but		Pro 13:20; Pro 23:20,21; Jdg 9:4; Luk 15:12-17

Correlating Passages

that tilleth

	Pro 12:11	He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain [persons is] void of understanding.
	Pro 14:4	Where no oxen [are], the crib [is] clean: but much increase [is] by the strength of the ox.
	Pro 27:23	Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, [and] look well to thy herds.
	Pro 27:24	For riches [are] not for ever: and doth the crown [endure] to every generation?
	Pro 27:25	The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.
	Pro 27:26	The lambs [are] for thy clothing, and the goats [are] the price of the field.
	Pro 27:27	And [thou shalt have] goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and [for] the maintenance for thy maidens.

but

	Pro 13:20	He that walketh with wise [men] shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
	Pro 23:20	Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
	Pro 23:21	For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe [a man] with rags.
	Jdg 9:4	And they gave him threescore and ten [pieces] of silver out of the house of Baalberith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light persons, which followed him.
	Luk 15:12	And the younger of them said to [his] father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth [to me]. And he divided unto them [his] living.
	Luk 15:13	And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
	Luk 15:14	And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.
	Luk 15:15	And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
	Luk 15:16	And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.
	Luk 15:17	And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!

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Scott, Thomas. "Proverbs 28:19," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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