Proverbs 24:31
It was all grown over with thorns and nettles, and the wall of stone was broken down.
Genesis 3:17-19
He said to Adam: Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
Job 31:40
let thorns grow instead of wheat, and foul weeds instead of barley. The words of Job are ended, JOB QUITE TALKING.
Proverbs 19:23
Respect for Jehovah leads to life. He who has it will be satisfied. He will not be visited by evil.
Proverbs 20:4
The lazy man will not plow because of the cold. He will beg during harvest and have nothing.
Proverbs 22:13
The lazy man says: There is a lion outside. I will be killed in the streets.
Proverbs 23:21
For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty and drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.
Ecclesiastes 10:18
By indolence the building decays; and through idleness of the hands the house collapses.
Isaiah 5:5
Here is what I am going to do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge and break down the wall that protects it. I will let wild animals eat it and trample it down.
Jeremiah 4:3
Jehovah says to the people of Judah and to Jerusalem: Break up your unplowed fields, and do not plant among thorns.
Matthew 13:7
Others fell upon the thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them.
Matthew 13:22
He that was sown among thorns hears the word. The cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.
Hebrews 6:8
That which bears thorns and briars is rejected, and is near to being cursed. It ends up being burned.