8 Bible Verses about Idleness

And we exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, comfort the dispirited, assist the sick, be of long suffering towards all men.

And we charge you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw from every brother who walks disorderly and not according to the tradition which you received from us. For you know yourselves how you ought to follow us, for we walked not disorderly among you, neither did we eat bread of any one for nought, but worked with labor and fatigue, night and day, not to be burdensome to any of you;read more.
not that we have not a right [to a support], but that we may make ourselves an example for you to follow us. For when we were with you, we gave you this charge, that if any one will not work, neither let him eat. For we hear that some go about among you in a disorderly manner, not working, but being above work; we charge and exhort such, by our Lord Jesus Christ, to work quietly, and eat their own bread. But, brothers, be not weary of well doing. But if any one obeys not our word by this epistle, mark that one, and have no association with him, that he may be ashamed; and account him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

and at the same time also, being idle, they learn to go from house to house, and not only are they idle, they are also tattlers and mischief makers, saying what they ought not.

A certain one of them, their own poet, said, Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gormandizers.

But we desire each of you to show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope to the end, that you be not stupid, but followers of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

For you know yourselves how you ought to follow us, for we walked not disorderly among you, neither did we eat bread of any one for nought, but worked with labor and fatigue, night and day, not to be burdensome to any of you; not that we have not a right [to a support], but that we may make ourselves an example for you to follow us.