Bible Verses about “waste”

“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.”

“¶ He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.”

“So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye [are]: 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.”

“When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, ‹Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.›”

“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.”

“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.”

“¶ The slothful [man] roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man [is] precious.”

“For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.”

“For I was my father's son, tender and only [beloved] in the sight of my mother.”

“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.”

“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.”

“And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?”

“For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.”

“And Jesus said, ‹Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.›”

“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.”

“¶ Much food [is in] the tillage of the poor: but there is [that is] destroyed for want of judgment.”

“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;”