Matthew 20:6

And about the eleventh hour (5:00 p.m.) he went out and found others standing around, and he said to them, ‘Why have you been standing here idle all day?’

Proverbs 19:15

Laziness casts one into a deep sleep [unmindful of lost opportunity],
And the idle person will suffer hunger.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might; for there is no activity or planning or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) where you are going.

Ezekiel 16:49

Behold, this was the sin of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters (outlying cities) had arrogance, abundant food, and careless ease, but she did not help the poor and needy.

Luke 23:40-43

But the other one rebuked him, saying, “Do you not even fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation?

John 9:4

We must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; night is coming when no one can work.

Acts 17:21

(Now all the Athenians and the foreigners visiting there used to spend their [leisure] time in nothing other than telling or hearing something new.)

so that you will not be [spiritually] sluggish, but [will instead be] imitators of those who through faith [lean on God with absolute trust and confidence in Him and in His power] and by patient endurance [even when suffering] are [now] inheriting the promises.

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