Proverbs 6:6

Against Sloth

⁵ deliver thyself as a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler. ⁶ Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways and be wise: ⁷ which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,

Go to the Ant

Lazy Man

Proverbs 10:26

As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.

Proverbs 20:4

The sluggard will not plough by reason of the winter; he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

Proverbs 6:9

How long, sluggard, wilt thou lie down? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

Proverbs 13:4

A sluggard's soul desireth and hath nothing; but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.

Job 12:7-8

But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowl of the heavens, and they shall tell thee;

Proverbs 1:17

For in vain the net is spread in the sight of anything which hath wings.

Proverbs 15:19

The way of the sluggard is as a hedge of thorns; but the path of the upright is made plain.

Proverbs 18:9

He also who is indolent in his work is brother of the destroyer.

Proverbs 19:15

Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep, and the idle soul shall suffer hunger.

Proverbs 19:24

A sluggard burieth his hand in the dish, and will not even bring it to his mouth again.

Proverbs 21:25

The desire of the sluggard killeth him; for his hands refuse to work:

Proverbs 22:13

The sluggard saith, There is a lion without, I shall be killed in the streets!

Proverbs 24:30-34

I went by the field of a sluggard, and by the vineyard of a man void of understanding;

Proverbs 26:13-16

The sluggard saith, There is a fierce lion in the way; a lion is in the midst of the streets!

Proverbs 30:25

The ants, a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer;

Isaiah 1:3

The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib; Israel doth not know, my people hath no intelligence.

Matthew 6:26

Look at the birds of the heaven, that they sow not, nor reap, nor gather into granaries, and your heavenly Father nourishes them. Are ye not much more excellent than they?

Matthew 25:26

And his lord answering said to him, Wicked and slothful bondman, thou knewest that I reap where I had not sowed, and gather from where I had not scattered;

Romans 12:11

as to diligent zealousness, not slothful; in spirit fervent; serving the Lord.

Hebrews 6:12

that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience have been inheritors of the promises.