8 Bible Verses about Laziness

so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

Never be lacking in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serving the Lord.

For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: "If anyone will not work, he shall not eat."

making the most of your time, because the days are evil.

For you remember our labor and toil, brethren; we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we preached to you the gospel of God.

For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: "If anyone will not work, he shall not eat." For we hear that some among you are leading an undisciplined life, not doing any work at all, but acting like busybodies. Now such persons we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ to work in quiet fashion and earn their own bread to eat.

But his master answered him, 'You wicked and lazy servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown, and gather where I have not scattered seed? Then you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I would have received back my own with interest. Therefore take the talent from him, and give it to him who has the ten talents.read more.
For to every one who has will more be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away. And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'