5 Bible Verses about Idleness, Consequences Of

Don't love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

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

Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.

The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.

I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down. Then I saw, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction:read more.
a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep; so your poverty will come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.