Proverbs 24:31
and lo, it was all grown over with thistles, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and its stone wall was broken down.
Genesis 3:17-19
And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed be the ground on thy account; with toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
Job 31:40
Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and tares instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
Proverbs 19:23
The fear of Jehovah tendeth to life, and he that hath it shall rest satisfied without being visited with evil.
Proverbs 20:4
The sluggard will not plough by reason of the winter; he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
Proverbs 22:13
The sluggard saith, There is a lion without, I shall be killed in the streets!
Proverbs 23:21
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; and drowsiness clotheth with rags.
Ecclesiastes 10:18
By much sloth fulness the framework falleth in; and through idleness of the hands the house drippeth.
Isaiah 5:5
And now, let me tell you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trodden under foot;
Jeremiah 4:3
For thus saith Jehovah to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: Break up for you a fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
Matthew 13:7
and others fell upon the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them;
Matthew 13:22
And he that is sown among the thorns this is he who hears the word, and the anxious care of this life, and the deceit of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.
Hebrews 6:8
but bringing forth thorns and briars, it is found worthless and nigh to a curse, whose end is to be burned.