Laziness
Laziness casts one into a deep sleep, And an idle person will suffer hunger. Proverbs 19:15
Because of laziness the building decays, And through idleness of hands the house leaks.
Ecclesiastes 10:18
The soul of a lazy man desires, and has nothing: But the soul of the diligent shall be made rich.
Proverbs 13:4
The way of the lazy man is like a hedge of thorns, But the way of the upright is a highway.
Proverbs 15:19
The lazy man will not plow because of winter; He will beg during harvest and have nothing.
Proverbs 20:4
Do not love sleep, lest you come to poverty; Open your eyes, and you will be satisfied with bread. Proverbs 20:13
The desire of the lazy man kills him, For his hands refuse to labor. Proverbs 21:25
The lazy man says, "There is a lion outside! I shall be slain in the streets!" Proverbs 22:13
I went by the field of the lazy man, And by the vineyard of the man devoid of understanding; And there it was, all overgrown with thorns; Its surface was covered with nettles; Its stone wall was broken down. When I saw it, I considered it well; I looked on it and received instruction: A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to rest; So shall your poverty come like a prowler, And your need like an armed man. Proverbs 24:30-34
As a door turns on its hinges, So does the lazy man on his bed. Proverbs 26:24
He who tills his land will have plenty of bread, But he who follows frivolity will have poverty enough! Proverbs 28:19
One of them, a prophet of their own, said, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons."
Titus 1:12
About the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle, and said to them, "Why have you been standing here idle all day?" Matthew 20:6
For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat. For we hear that there are some who walk among you in a disorderly manner, not working at all, but are busybodies. Now those who are such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ that they work in quietness and eat their own bread.
2 Thessalonians 3:10-12
