Bible verses about "laziness" | Rotherham

¹⁵ Sloth, falleth into a deep sleep, and, a soul that is indolent, shall famish.

²⁴ The hand of the diligent, shall bear rule, but, the indolent, shall come under tribute.

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

¹³ Saith the sluggard, A roaring lion in the road! A tearing lion in the midst of the broadways.
¹⁴ The door, turneth on its hinges, and, the sluggard, upon his bed.
¹⁵ The sluggard burieth his hand in the dish, he is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.
¹⁶ Wiser is the sluggard in his own eyes, than, seven persons, who can answer with judgment.

²³ By all labour, there will be abundance, but, the talk of the lips, tendeth only to want.

¹⁷ But, he, answered them––My Father, until even now, is working; and, I, am working.

²² Become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only––reasoning yourselves astray;

¹¹ We hear, in fact, of some who are walking among you in a disorderly way, at nothing, working, yet too busily working! ¹² Now, such as these, we charge and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ,––that, with quietness, working, their own bread, they be eating.

¹⁷ To him, therefore, who knoweth how to be doing, a right thing, and is not doing it, it is, sin, unto him.

¹⁶ But, of the doing good and of fellowship, be not forgetful; for, with such sacrifices as these, is, God, well–pleased.

²⁵ The craving of the sluggard, killeth him, for his hands have refused to work.

³⁰ By the field of the sluggard, I passed, and by the vineyard of a man lacking sense; ³¹ And lo! there had come up all over it––thorns, there had covered the face thereof––thistles, and, the stone fence thereof, had been thrown down. ³² So I observed it, for myself, I applied my heart, I looked––I accepted correction: ³³ A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest: ³⁴ So shall come in, as a highwayman, thy poverty, and, thy want, as one armed with a shield.

⁴ By reason of the autumn, a sluggard will not plough, therefore shall he beg in harvest, and there be nothing.

¹³ Do not love sleep, lest thou come to poverty, open thine eyes, be satisfied with bread.

⁹ Surely he that is slothful in his work, brother, is he to a master at laying waste.

⁸ If, however, anyone, for his own, and specially them of his household, taketh not forethought, his faith, hath he denied, and is worse, than one without faith!

⁴ He becometh poor, who dealeth with a slack hand, but, the hand of the diligent, maketh rich.

¹⁰ For, even when we were with you, this, were we giving in charge unto you,––that, if any will not work, neither let him eat!

²³ Whatsoever ye may be doing, from the soul, be working at it, as unto the Lord, and not unto men,––

⁴ The sluggard, desireth, but his soul hath, nothing. But, the soul of the diligent, shall be enriched.