Top 25 Bible Verses About Slothfulness (NIV)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

¹⁸ If a man is lazy, the rafters sag; if his hands are idle, the house leaks.

²⁴ The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he will not even bring it back to his mouth!

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

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

¹³ The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside!" or, "I will be murdered in the streets!"

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

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

¹⁹ The way of the sluggard is blocked with thorns, but the path of the upright is a highway.

¹² We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.

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.

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.

²⁷ The lazy man does not roast his game, but the diligent man prizes his possessions.

²⁶ As vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so is a sluggard to those who send him.

²⁶ "His master replied, 'You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed?

¹⁷ And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

³⁰ I went past the field of the sluggard, past the vineyard of the man who lacks judgment;

¹⁰ Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves. ¹¹ Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.