Thematic Bible: Not being lazy

Do not love [excessive] sleep, or you will become poor;
Open your eyes [so that you can do your work] and you will be satisfied with bread.
Verse ConceptsIdleness, Consequences OfPoverty, Causes OfSleep, PhysicalSluggardsWork, And RestRising LateIdleness Leads ToPovertyIndustryThe Love Of SleepSloth, Leads ToAvoiding PovertyThe poorBreadGrowingFeeding The Poorrelaxationlovers

But we do [ strongly and earnestly] desire for each of you to show the same diligence and sincerity [all the way through] in realizing and enjoying the full assurance and development of [your] hope until the end, In order that you may not grow disinterested and become [spiritual] sluggards, but imitators, behaving as do those who through faith ( by their leaning of the entire personality on God in Christ in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness) and by practice of patient endurance and waiting are [now] inheriting the promises.

Love one another with brotherly affection [as members of one family], giving precedence and showing honor to one another. Never lag in zeal and in earnest endeavor; be aglow and burning with the Spirit, serving the Lord.