Bible verses about "lazy" | LEB

²⁷ The lazy will not roast his game, but diligence is the precious wealth of a man.

¹⁶ Your words were found and I ate them, and your words became to me as jubilation, even as the joy of my heart, for your name is called on me, O Yahweh God of hosts.

⁶ Go to the ant, lazy! Consider its ways and be wise.

¹³ A lazy person says "A lion is in the road! A lion among the streets!" ¹⁴ The door turns on its hinge, and a lazy person on his bed. ¹⁵ A lazy person buries his hands in the dish; he is too tired to return it to his mouth. ¹⁶ A lazy person is wiser in his eyes than seven who answer discreetly.

⁴ The lazy person will not plow in season; he will expect at the harvest, but there will be nothing.

⁴ A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent enriches.

¹³ Do not love sleep, lest you become poor; open your eyes and have plenty bread.

¹⁷ in order that the person of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.

¹³ A lazy person says "A lion in the street! In the middle of the highway, I shall be killed!"

²⁵ The craving of a lazy person will kill him, for his hands refuse to work.*

³⁰ I passed by the field of a lazy person, and over the vineyard of a person lacking _⌊sense_⌋;* ³¹ and behold, it was overgrown—all of it was covered with thorns, its surface with nettles, and _⌊its stone wall_⌋* was broken down. ³² Then I myself saw and my heart* considered; I looked, and I took hold of instruction: ³³ A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands for rest, ³⁴ and your poverty will come running, and your lack like an armed warrior.

¹¹ For we hear that some among you are living irresponsibly, working at nothing, but being busybodies. ¹² Now we command and we exhort such people in the Lord Jesus Christ that, working with quietness, they eat their own bread.

²² But be doers of the message and not hearers only,* deceiving yourselves,

²³ Whatever you do, accomplish it from the soul, as to the Lord, and not to people,

⁹ How long will you lie down, lazy? When will you rise up from your sleep?

⁸ But if someone does not provide for his own relatives, and especially the members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.