IDLENESS

Passages on this topic · 49

• Proverbs 6:6

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

• Proverbs 6:7

  which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,

• Proverbs 6:8

  provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.

• Proverbs 6:9

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

• Proverbs 6:10

  A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

• Proverbs 6:11

  so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.

• Proverbs 10:4

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

• Proverbs 10:5

  He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during the harvest is a son who causes shame.

• Proverbs 10:26

  As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.

• Proverbs 12:9

  Better is he who is lightly esteemed, and has a servant, than he who honors himself, and lacks bread.

• Proverbs 12:24

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

• Proverbs 12:27

  The slothful man doesn’t roast his game, but the possessions of diligent men are prized.

• Proverbs 13:4

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

• Proverbs 14:23

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

• Proverbs 15:19

  The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, but the path of the upright is a highway.

• Proverbs 18:9

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

• Proverbs 19:15

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

• Proverbs 19:24

  The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

• Proverbs 20:4

  The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

• Proverbs 20:13

  Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

• Proverbs 21:25

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

• Proverbs 21:26

  There are those who covet greedily all day long; but the righteous give and don’t withhold.

• Proverbs 22:13

  The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!”

• Proverbs 23:21

  for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

• Proverbs 24:30

  I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;

• Proverbs 24:31

  Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.

• Proverbs 24:32

  Then I saw, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction:

• Proverbs 24:33

  a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep;

• Proverbs 24:34

  so your poverty will come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.

• Proverbs 26:13

  The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road! A fierce lion roams the streets!”

• Proverbs 26:14

  As the door turns on its hinges, so does the sluggard on his bed.

• Proverbs 26:15

  The sluggard buries his hand in the dish. He is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.

• Proverbs 26:16

  The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer with discretion.

• Ecclesiastes 4:5

  The fool folds his hands together and ruins himself.

• Ecclesiastes 10:18

  By slothfulness the roof sinks in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.

• Isaiah 56:10

  His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They can’t bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

• Ezekiel 16:49

  “‘“Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

• Matthew 20:6

  About the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle. He said to them, ‘Why do you stand here all day idle?’

• Matthew 20:7

  “They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ “He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and you will receive whatever is right.’

• Luke 19:20

  Another came, saying, ‘Lord, behold, your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief,

• Luke 19:21

  for I feared you, because you are an exacting man. You take up that which you didn’t lay down, and reap that which you didn’t sow.’

• Luke 19:22

  “He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn’t lay down, and reaping that which I didn’t sow.

• Luke 19:23

  Then why didn’t you deposit my money in the bank, and at my coming, I might have earned interest on it?’

• Luke 19:24

  He said to those who stood by, ‘Take the mina away from him, and give it to him who has the ten minas.’

• Luke 19:25

  “They said to him, ‘Lord, he has ten minas!’

• Acts 17:21

  Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.

• 2 Thessalonians 3:10

  For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone will not work, don’t let him eat.”

• 2 Thessalonians 3:11

  For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don’t work at all, but are busybodies.

• 1 Timothy 5:13

  Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.