14 Bible Verses about Busyness

Go to the ant, you lazy man! Observe its ways and become wise.

But Martha was worrying about all the things she had to do, so she came to him and asked, "Lord, you do care that my sister has left me to do the work all by myself, don't you? Then tell her to help me."

Sow your seed in the morning, and don't stop working until evening, since you don't know which of your endeavors will do well, whether this one or that, or even if both will do equally well.

While your servant was busy here and there, the prisoner escaped." The king told him, "By your actions you've earned the proper judgment!"

In fact, people walk around as shadows. Surely, they busy themselves for nothing, heaping up possessions but not knowing who will get them.

Too many worries lead to nightmares, and a fool is known from talking too much.

The ones that fell among the thorn bushes are the people who listen, but as they go on their way they are choked by the worries, wealth, and pleasures of life, and their fruit doesn't mature.

Also, make it your goal to live quietly, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we instructed you,

We hear that some of you are living in idleness. You are not busy working you are busy interfering in other people's lives!

He asked them, "Why were you looking for me? Didn't you know that I had to be in my Father's house?"

The LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden in order to have him work it and guard it.

Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.

"Come to me, all of you who are weary and loaded down with burdens, and I will give you rest.

Be in awe and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted throughout the earth.