Bible verses about "laziness" | MLV

¹⁵ Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep and the idle soul will suffer hunger.

²⁴ The hand of the diligent will rule, but the slothful will be put under forced-labor.

⁶ Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways and be wise.

¹³ The sluggard says, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.
¹⁴ The door turns upon its hinges, so does the sluggard upon his bed.
¹⁵ The sluggard buries his hand in the dish. It wearies him to bring it again to his mouth.
¹⁶ The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men who can render a reason.

²³ There is profit in all labor, but the talk of the lips tends only to poverty.

¹⁷ But Jesus answered them, My Father is working until now, and I am working.

¹¹ For we hear there are some who are walking disorderly among you, working at nothing, but are busybodies. ¹² Now we are commanding to such and are encouraging through our Lord Jesus Christ, in order that they work with quietness and should eat their own bread.

²² But become doers of the word and not hearers only, deluding yourselves.

¹⁷ Therefore knowing to do good and not doing it, to him, it is sin.

¹⁶ But do not forget the practice of good and fellowship; for God is well pleased with such sacrifices.

²⁵ The desire of the sluggard kills him, because his hands refuse to labor.

³⁰ I went by the field of the sluggard and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding.
³¹ And behold, it was all grown over with thorns. The face of it was covered with nettles and the stone wall of it 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 your poverty will come as a robber and your want as an armed man.

⁴ The sluggard will not plow because of the winter. Therefore he will beg in harvest and have nothing.

¹³ Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes and you will be satisfied with bread.

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

⁸ But if anyone is not planning-for his own and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

⁴ He who works with a slack hand becomes poor, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

¹⁰ For even when we were with you, we were commanding you this, If anyone is not willing to work, neither let him eat.

²³ And everything, anything whatever you do, work from your soul, as you would to the Lord and not as to men;

⁴ The soul of the sluggard desires and has nothing, but the soul of the diligent will be made fat.