Idleness: General Scriptures Concerning

Scripture references

Pro 6:6–11 Walk in the manner of the ant, O slacker; observe its ways and become
Pro 10:4, 5, 26 Idle hands make one poor, but diligent hands bring wealth. / He who
Pro 12:9, 24, 27 Better to be lightly esteemed yet have a servant, than to be
Pro 13:4 The slacker craves yet has nothing, but the soul of the diligent is fully
Pro 14:23 There is profit in all labor, but mere talk leads only to poverty.
Pro 15:19 The way of the slacker is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the
Pro 18:9 Whoever is slothful in his work is brother to him who destroys.
Pro 19:15, 24 Laziness brings on deep sleep, and an idle soul will suffer hunger. /
Pro 20:4, 13 The slacker does not plow in season; at harvest time he looks, but
Pro 21:25, 26 The craving of the slacker kills him because his hands refuse to
Pro 22:13 The slacker says, “There is a lion outside! I will be slain in the
Pro 23:21 For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness
Pro 24:30–34 I went past the field of a slacker and by the vineyard of a man
Pro 26:13–16 The slacker says, “A lion is in the road! A fierce lion roams the
Ecc 4:5 The fool folds his hands and consumes his own flesh.
Ecc 10:18 Through laziness the roof caves in, and in the hands of the idle, the
Isa 56:10 Israel’s watchmen are blind, they are all oblivious; they are all mute
Eze 16:49 Now this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters
Mat 20:6, 7 About the eleventh hour he went out and found still others standing
Luk 19:20–25 Then another servant came and said, ‘Master, here is your mina, which
Act 17:21 Now all the Athenians and foreigners who lived there spent their time
2Th 3:10, 11 For even while we were with you, we gave you this command: “If anyone
1Ti 5:13 At the same time they will also learn to be idle, going from house to