14 Bible Verses about Busyness

Go to the ant, lazy! Consider its ways and be wise.

But Martha was distracted with much preparation, so she approached [and] said, "Lord, is it not a concern to you that my sister has left me alone to make preparations? Then tell her that she should help me!"

Sow your seed in the morning, and do not let your hands rest in the evening, for you do not know what will prosper-- whether this or that, or whether both of them alike will succeed.

It happened that your servant {was busy here and there}, and he {disappeared}." Then the king said to him, "Your own judgment has been determined."

Surely a man walks about as a [mere] {shadow}; surely in vain they bustle about. He heaps up [possessions] but does not know who [will] gather them [in].

For a dream comes with many cares, and the voice of a fool with many words.

And the [seed] that fell into the thorn plants--these are the ones who hear and [as they] go along are choked by the worries and riches and pleasures of life, and they do not bear fruit to maturity.

and to aspire to live a quiet life, and to attend to {your own business}, and to work with your hands, just as we commanded you,

For we hear [that] some among you are living irresponsibly, working [at] nothing, but being busybodies.

And he said to them, "{Why} were you searching for me? Did you not know that it was necessary [for] me to be in the [house] of my Father?"

And Yahweh God took the man and set him in the garden of Eden to cultivate it and to keep it.

Therefore, whether you eat or you drink or whatever you do, do all [things] for the glory of God.

Come to me, all [of you] who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.

Be still, and know that I [am] God. I will be exalted among the nations; I will be exalted in the earth.