Bible verses about "laziness" | ASV

¹⁵ Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep;
And the idle soul shall suffer hunger.

²⁴ The hand of the diligent shall bear rule;
But the slothful shall be put under taskwork.

⁶ Go to the ant, thou sluggard;
Consider her ways, and be wise:

²³ In all labor there is profit;
But the talk of the lips [tendeth] only to penury.

¹³ The sluggard saith, There is a lion in the way;
A lion is in the streets. ¹⁴ [As] the door turneth upon its hinges,
So doth the sluggard upon his bed. ¹⁵ The sluggard burieth his hand in the dish;
It wearieth him to bring it again to his mouth. ¹⁶ The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit
Than seven men that can render a reason.

¹⁷ But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh even until now, and I work.

²² But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your own selves.

¹¹ For we hear of some that walk among you disorderly, that work not at all, but are busybodies. ¹² Now them that are such we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

¹⁷ To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

¹⁶ But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

²⁵ The desire of the sluggard killeth him;
For his hands refuse to labor.

⁴ The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter;
Therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

¹³ Love not sleep, let thou come to poverty;
Open thine eyes, [and] thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

³⁰ I went by the field of the sluggard,
And by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; ³¹ And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns,
The face thereof was covered with nettles,
And the stone wall thereof was broken down. ³² Then I beheld, and considered well;
I saw, and received instruction: ³³ [Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber,
A little folding of the hands to sleep; ³⁴ So shall thy poverty come as a robber,
And thy want as an armed man.

⁹ He also that is slack in his work
Is brother to him that is a destroyer.

⁸ But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

⁴ He becometh poor that worketh with a slack hand;
But the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

¹⁰ For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, If any will not work, neither let him eat.

²³ whatsoever ye do, work heartily, as unto the Lord, and not unto men;

⁴ The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing;
But the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.