Top 25 Bible Verses About Laziness (NIV)

⁴ The sluggard craves and gets nothing, but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.

²³ Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men,

⁴ Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.

¹⁰ For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: "If a man will not work, he shall not eat."

⁹ One who is slack in his work is brother to one who destroys.

⁸ If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

²⁵ The sluggard's craving will be the death of him, because his hands refuse to work.

³⁰ I went past the field of the sluggard, past the vineyard of the man who lacks judgment; ³¹ thorns had come up everywhere, the ground was covered with weeds, and the stone wall was in ruins. ³² I applied my heart to what I observed and learned a lesson from what I saw: ³³ A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest- ³⁴ and poverty will come on you like a bandit and scarcity like an armed man.

⁴ A sluggard does not plow in season; so at harvest time he looks but finds nothing.

¹³ Do not love sleep or you will grow poor; stay awake and you will have food to spare.

¹⁵ Laziness brings on deep sleep, and the shiftless man goes hungry.

²⁴ Diligent hands will rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.

¹⁷ Jesus said to them, "My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I, too, am working."

⁶ Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise!

¹³ The sluggard says, "There is a lion in the road, a fierce lion roaming the streets!" ¹⁴ As a door turns on its hinges, so a sluggard turns 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 discreetly.

¹⁷ Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins.

²³ All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.

²² Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.

¹¹ We hear that some among you are idle. They are not busy; they are busybodies. ¹² Such people we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to settle down and earn the bread they eat.

¹⁶ And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.

¹⁵ Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.

¹⁵ The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.

¹⁰ Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the grave, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.

¹¹ Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.

⁵ He who gathers crops in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son.