Bible verses about "laziness" | NHEB

¹⁵ Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.

²⁴ The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.

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

¹³ The sluggard says, "There is a lion in the road. A fierce lion roams the streets." ¹⁴ As the door turns on its hinges, so does the sluggard on his bed. ¹⁵ The sluggard buries his hand in the dish. He is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth. ¹⁶ The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer with discretion.

²³ In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

¹⁷ But he answered them, "My Father is still working, so I am working, too."

¹¹ For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who do not work at all, but are busybodies. ¹² Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

²² But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

¹⁷ To him therefore who knows to do good, and does not do it, to him it is sin.

¹⁶ But do not forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

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

³⁰ I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; ³¹ Look, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down. ³² Then I saw, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction: ³³ 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 by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

¹³ Do not love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

⁹ One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.

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

⁴ He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.

¹⁰ For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: "If anyone will not work, neither let him eat."

²³ And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for people,

⁴ The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.