Proverbs 20:4

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

Proverbs 19:15

Laziness will bring on a deep sleep, and a person of idleness will suffer hunger.

Proverbs 10:4

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

Proverbs 19:24

A lazy person buries his hand in the dish, and even to his mouth he will not bring it back.

Proverbs 6:10-11

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands for rest--

Proverbs 13:4

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

Proverbs 24:34

and your poverty will come running, and your lack like an armed warrior.

Proverbs 26:13-16

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

Matthew 25:3-10

For [when] the foolish ones took their lamps, they did not take olive oil with them.

And the one who had received the one talent came up also [and] said, 'Master, [because I] knew you, that you are a hard man, reaping where you did not sow and gathering from where you did not scatter [seed].

2 Peter 1:5-11

and [for] this same [reason], and [by] applying all diligence, supply with your faith excellence of character, and with excellence of character, knowledge,

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Summary

Proverbs 20:4

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.

Sluggard

Proverbs 10:4

Proverbs 19:15

Proverbs 26:13

Therefore

2 Peter 1:5

General references

Bible References

Sluggard

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

Laziness will bring on a deep sleep, and a person of idleness will suffer hunger.

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

Therefore

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands for rest--

Laziness will bring on a deep sleep, and a person of idleness will suffer hunger.

and your poverty will come running, and your lack like an armed warrior.

For [when] the foolish ones took their lamps, they did not take olive oil with them.

and [for] this same [reason], and [by] applying all diligence, supply with your faith excellence of character, and with excellence of character, knowledge,

General references

like a {robber} shall your poverty come, and what you lack like an armed man.

The craving of a lazy person will kill him, for his hands refuse to work.

Through sloth the roof sinks in, and through idleness of hands the house leaks.

Whoever watches the wind will not sow; whoever watches the clouds will not reap.