Bible verses about "lazy" | MLV

²⁷ The slothful man roasts not what he took in hunting, but the substance of a diligent man is precious.

¹⁶ Your words were found and I ate them. And your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart. For I am called by your name, O Jehovah, God of hosts.

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.

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

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

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

¹⁷ in order that the man of God may be equipped, having been utterly equipped for every good work.

¹³ The sluggard says, There is a lion outside. I will be slain in the streets.

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.

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.

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

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

⁹ How long will you sleep, O sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?

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.