Proverbs 24:31
And lo, it was all covered with nettles, and stood full of thistles, and the stone wall was broken down.
Genesis 3:17-19
And unto Adam he said, "Forasmuch as thou hast obeyed the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying 'See thou eat not thereof' cursed be the earth for thy sake. In sorrow shalt thou eat thereof all days of thy life:
Job 31:40
then let thistles grow instead of my wheat, and thorns for my barley."
Proverbs 19:23
The fear of the LORD preserveth the life; yea it giveth plenteousness, without the visitation of any plague.
Proverbs 20:4
A slothful body will not go to plow, for cold of the winter; therefore shall he go a begging in Summer and have nothing.
Proverbs 22:13
The slothful body sayeth, "There is a lion without, I might be slain in the street."
Proverbs 23:21
for such as be drunkards and riotous shall come to poverty, and he that is given to much sleep, shall go with a ragged coat.
Ecclesiastes 10:18
Through slothfulness the balks fall down, and through idle hands it raineth in at the house.
Isaiah 5:5
Well, now I shall tell you how I will do with my vineyard: I will take the hedge from it, that it may perish, and break down the wall, that it may be trodden under foot.
Jeremiah 4:3
For thus sayeth the LORD, to all Judah and Jerusalem, "Plow your land, and sow not among the thorns.
Matthew 13:7
Some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprung up and choked it.
Matthew 13:22
He that was sown among thorns, is he that heareth the word of God, but the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and so is he made unfruitful.
Hebrews 6:8
but that ground, which beareth thorns and briars, is reproved, and is nigh unto cursing: whose end is to be burned.