Take a lesson from the ants, you lazy fellow. Learn from their ways and be wise! For though they have no king to make them work, yet they labor hard all summer, gathering food for the winter. Proverbs 6:6-8, TLB
Promises
a radiant crown
I will clothe his enemies with shame, but his head will be adorned with a radiant crown.— Psalm 132:18, NIV
someone else
Let someone else praise you, not your own mouth—a stranger, not your own lips. Proverbs 27:2, NLT
and yet…
“And yet you think I’m worried that we have no bread?” Mark 8:21, TLB
with seven loaves of bread
“And when I fed the 4,000 with seven loaves, how much was left?” “Seven basketfuls,” they said. Mark 8:20, TLB
with five loaves of bread
“What about the 5,000 men I fed with five loaves of bread? How many basketfuls of scraps did you pick up afterwards?” “Twelve,” they said. Mark 8:19, TLB