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What does the Bible say about waste?

13 verses about waste, ranked by the votes of OpenBible.info readers, with the King James text.

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Bible verses about waste

John 6:12 — When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost. 33 votes
Ezekiel 16:49 — Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. 15 votes
Leviticus 23:22 — And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God. 7 votes
Proverbs 18:9 — He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster. 7 votes
Proverbs 12:27 — The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man is precious. 6 votes
Proverbs 13:23 — Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment. 6 votes
Deuteronomy 24:19 — When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands. 5 votes
Isaiah 54:16 — Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy. 3 votes
Mark 14:3 — And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head. 3 votes
Genesis 1:28 — And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. 2 votes
Numbers 35:33 — So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it. 2 votes
Deuteronomy 7:9 — Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations; 2 votes
Proverbs 4:2 — For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law. 2 votes

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Proverbs (4), Deuteronomy (2), Genesis (1), Leviticus (1), Numbers (1), Isaiah (1), Ezekiel (1), Mark (1), John (1)

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