Top 25 Bible Verses About Boredom (ESV)

15   Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep,
    and an idle person will suffer hunger.

24 There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God, 25 for apart from him who can eat or who can have enjoyment? 26 For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

18 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

22 So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.

23 Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

5 We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,

18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

4   The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
    while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.

2 Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, 3 for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. 4 And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

6 But godliness with contentment is great gain,

8 For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

2 Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.

18   The LORD is near to the brokenhearted
    and saves the crushed in spirit.

18 And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,

12 I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need.

16 Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw that the city was full of idols.

8   He has told you, O man, what is good;
    and what does the LORD require of you
  but to do justice, and to love kindness,
    and to walk humbly with your God?

7 for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. 8 But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content.

11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. 12 I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live; 13 also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God’s gift to man.

15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”

13 Besides that, they learn to be idlers, going about from house to house, and not only idlers, but also gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not.

16 By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.