Bible verses about "slothfulness" | BBE

¹⁹ Thorns are round the way of the hater of work; but the road of the hard worker becomes a highway.

⁴ He who is slow in his work becomes poor, but the hand of the ready worker gets in wealth.

¹³ The hater of work says, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets. ¹⁴ A door is turned on its pillar, and the hater of work on his bed. ¹⁵ The hater of work puts his hand deep into the basin: lifting it again to his mouth is a weariness to him. ¹⁶ The hater of work seems to himself wiser than seven men who are able to give an answer with good sense.

²⁷ He who is slow in his work does not go in search of food; but the ready worker gets much wealth.

²⁶ Like acid drink to the teeth and as smoke to the eyes, so is the hater of work to those who send him.

²⁶ But his lord in answer said to him, You are a bad and unready servant; if you had knowledge that I get in grain where I did not put seed, and make profits for which I have done no work,

¹¹ Be not slow in your work, but be quick in spirit, as the Lord's servants;

¹² So that you may not be slow in heart, but may take as your example those to whom God has given their heritage, because of their faith and their long waiting.

¹⁷ And whatever you do, in word or in act, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving praise to God the Father through him.

⁸ If anyone has no care for his family and those in his house, he is false to the faith, and is worse than one who has no faith.

³⁰ I went by the field of the hater of work, and by the vine-garden of the man without sense; ³¹ And it was all full of thorns, and covered with waste plants, and its stone wall was broken down. ³² Then looking at it, I gave thought: I saw, and I got teaching from it. ³³ A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep: ³⁴ So loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man.

¹⁸ When no work is done the roof goes in, and when the hands do nothing water comes into the house.

²⁴ The hater of work puts his hand deep into the basin, and will not even take it to his mouth again.

²⁵ The desire of the hater of work is death to him, for his hands will do no work.

¹³ The hater of work says, There is a lion outside: I will be put to death in the streets.

⁹ He who does not give his mind to his work is brother to him who makes destruction.

²³ Whatever you do, do it readily, as to the Lord and not to men;

²⁴ The hand of the ready worker will have authority, but he who is slow in his work will be put to forced work.

⁴ The hater of work does not get his desires, but the soul of the hard workers will be made fat.

⁶ Go to the ant, you hater of work; give thought to her ways and be wise:

⁴ The hater of work will not do his ploughing because of the winter; so at the time of grain-cutting he will be requesting food and will get nothing.

¹⁰ For even when we were with you we gave you orders, saying, If any man does no work, let him not have food.

¹⁵ Hate of work sends deep sleep on a man: and he who has no industry will go without food.