Bible verses about "laziness" | MSTC

¹⁵ Slothfulness bringeth sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

²⁴ A diligent hand shall bear rule; but the idle shall be under tribute.

⁶ Go to the Emmet, thou sluggard: consider her ways, and learn to be wise.

¹³ The slothful sayeth, "There is a leopard in the way, and a lion in the midst of the streets." ¹⁴ Like as the door turneth about upon the threshold, even so doth the slothful welter himself in his bed. ¹⁵ The slothful body thrusteth his hand into his bosom, and it grieveth him to put it again to his mouth. ¹⁶ The sluggard thinketh himself wiser than seven men that sit and teach.

²³ In every labour there is some profit; but only vain words bringeth forth penury.

¹⁷ And Jesus answered them, "My father worketh hitherto, and I work."

¹¹ We have heard say, no doubt, that there are some which walk among you inordinately, and work not at all, but are busybodies. ¹² Them that are such, we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that they work with quietness, and eat their own bread.

²² And see that ye be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves with sophistry.

¹⁷ Therefore to him that knoweth how to do good, and doth it not: to him, it is sin.

¹⁶ To do good, and to distribute, forget not: for with such sacrifices God is pleased.

²⁵ The voluptuousness of the slothful is his own death, for his hands will not labour.

³⁰ I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyards of the foolish man. ³¹ And lo, it was all covered with nettles, and stood full of thistles, and the stone wall was broken down. ³² This I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and took it for a warning. ³³ Yea, sleep on still a little, slumber a little, fold thine hands together yet a little; ³⁴ so shall poverty come unto thee as one that travaileth by the way, and necessity like a weaponed man.

⁴ A slothful body will not go to plow, for cold of the winter; therefore shall he go a begging in Summer and have nothing.

¹³ Delight not thou in sleep, lest thou come to poverty; but open thine eyes, and thou shalt have bread enough.

⁹ Whoso is slothful and slack in his labor, is the brother of him that is a waster.

⁸ If there be any that provideth not for his own, and namely for them of his household, the same denieth the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

⁴ An idle hand maketh poor; but a quick laboring hand maketh rich.

¹⁰ For when we were with you, this we warned you of, that if there were any which would not work, that the same should not eat.

²³ And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily as though ye did it to the Lord, and not unto men,

⁴ The sluggard would fain have, and cannot get his desire; but the soul of the diligent shall have plenty.