36 Bible Verses about Sluggards

Go to the ant, you sluggard; observe its ways and be wise! It has no commander, overseer, or ruler, yet it prepares its food in the summer; it gathers at the harvest what it will eat.

The lazy person does not roast his prey, but personal possessions are precious to the diligent.

The way of the sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is like a highway.

The sluggard plunges his hand in the dish, and he will not even bring it back to his mouth!

The sluggard will not plow during the planting season, so at harvest time he looks for the crop but has nothing.

What the sluggard desires will kill him, for his hands refuse to work.

I passed by the field of a sluggard, by the vineyard of one who lacks wisdom. I saw that thorns had grown up all over it, the ground was covered with weeds, and its stone wall was broken down.

The sluggard plunges his hand in the dish; he is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.

How long, you sluggard, will you lie there? When will you rise from your sleep?

Like a door that turns on its hinges, so a sluggard turns on his bed.

The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the middle of the streets!"

The sluggard says, "There is a lion in the road! A lion in the streets!"

The appetite of the sluggard craves but gets nothing, but the desire of the diligent will be abundantly satisfied.

What the sluggard desires will kill him, for his hands refuse to work. All day long he craves greedily, but the righteous gives and does not hold back.

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to relax, and your poverty will come like a robber, and your need like an armed man.

The one who is lazy becomes poor, but the one who works diligently becomes wealthy. The one who gathers crops in the summer is a wise son, but the one who sleeps during the harvest is a son who brings shame to himself.

The diligent person will rule, but the slothful will become a slave.

The one who is slack in his work is a brother to one who destroys.

Laziness brings on a deep sleep, and the idle person will go hungry.

Do not love sleep, lest you become impoverished; open your eyes so that you might be satisfied with food.

"A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to relax, and your poverty will come like a bandit, and your need like an armed robber."

Like vinegar to the teeth and like smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.

The sluggard is wiser in his own estimation than seven people who respond with good sense.

The one who is lazy becomes poor, but the one who works diligently becomes wealthy.

Go to the ant, you sluggard; observe its ways and be wise! It has no commander, overseer, or ruler, yet it prepares its food in the summer; it gathers at the harvest what it will eat.read more.
How long, you sluggard, will you lie there? When will you rise from your sleep? A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to relax, and your poverty will come like a robber, and your need like an armed man.

The one who works his field will have plenty of food, but whoever chases daydreams lacks wisdom.

In all hard work there is profit, but merely talking about it only brings poverty.

The one who works his land will be satisfied with food, but whoever chases daydreams will have his fill of poverty.

When it was about nine o'clock in the morning, he went out again and saw others standing around in the marketplace without work.

Then the one who had received the one talent came and said, 'Sir, I knew that you were a hard man, harvesting where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter seed, so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. See, you have what is yours.' But his master answered, 'Evil and lazy slave! So you knew that I harvest where I didn't sow and gather where I didn't scatter?read more.
Then you should have deposited my money with the bankers, and on my return I would have received my money back with interest! Therefore take the talent from him and give it to the one who has ten. For the one who has will be given more, and he will have more than enough. But the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken from him. And throw that worthless slave into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'

And we urge you, brothers and sisters, admonish the undisciplined, comfort the discouraged, help the weak, be patient toward all.

But we command you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from any brother who lives an undisciplined life and not according to the tradition they received from us.

And besides that, going around from house to house they learn to be lazy, and they are not only lazy, but also gossips and busybodies, talking about things they should not.

A certain one of them, in fact, one of their own prophets, said, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons."

Here is another way that our people can learn to engage in good works to meet pressing needs and so not be unfruitful.

so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherit the promises.