19 Bible Verses about Laziness

that you won't be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises.

He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.

As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.

The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!"

The sluggard says, "There is a lion in the road! A fierce lion roams the streets!"

The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

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

Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: "If anyone will not work, neither let him eat."

How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep? A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.

One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

I sent messengers to them, saying, "I am doing a great work, so that I can't come down. Why should the work cease, while I leave it, and come down to you?"

For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.

Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise; which having no chief, overseer, or ruler, provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: "If anyone will not work, neither let him eat." For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don't work at all, but are busybodies. Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

"But his lord answered him, 'You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn't sow, and gather where I didn't scatter. You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest. Take away therefore the talent from him, and give it to him who has the ten talents.read more.
For to everyone who has will be given, and he will have abundance, but from him who doesn't have, even that which he has will be taken away. Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'