19 Bible Verses about Laziness

in order that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who inherit the promises through faith and patience.

A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent enriches.

Like vinegar to the tooth and like smoke to the eyes, thus [is] the lazy to one who employs him.

A lazy person says "A lion in the street! In the middle of the highway, I shall be killed!"

A lazy person says "A lion [is] in the road! A lion among the streets!"

The soul of the lazy craves, but there is nothing, but the person of diligence is richly supplied.

not lagging in diligence, being enthusiastic in spirit, serving the Lord,

The lazy person will not plow in season; he will expect at the harvest, but there [will be] nothing.

Go to the ant, lazy! Consider its ways and be wise.

For even when we were with you, we used to command this to you: that if anyone does not want to work, neither should he eat.

How long will you lie down, lazy? When will you rise up from your sleep? A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands for rest-- like a {robber} shall your poverty come, and what you lack like an armed man.

Even he who is slack in his work, he is brother to a master of destruction.

making the most of the time because the days are evil.

So I sent messengers to them, saying, "I am doing a great work and I am not able to come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you all?"

For you remember, brothers, our labor and hardship: working by night and day in order not to be a burden to any of you, we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

Go to the ant, lazy! Consider its ways and be wise. It has no chief, officer, or ruler. In the summer, it prepares its food; in the harvest, it gathers its sustenance.

For even when we were with you, we used to command this to you: that if anyone does not want to work, neither should he eat. For we hear [that] some among you are living irresponsibly, working [at] nothing, but being busybodies. Now we command and we exhort such people in the Lord Jesus Christ that, working with quietness, they eat their own bread.

But his master answered [and] said to him, 'Evil and lazy slave! You knew that I reap where I did not sow and gather from where I did not scatter [seed]. Then you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, and [when I] returned I would have gotten back [what was] mine with interest! Therefore take the talent from him and give [it] to the one who has the ten talents.read more.
For to everyone who has, [more] will be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him. And throw the worthless slave into the outer darkness--in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth!'