TOPICAL BIBLE
Idleness
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Proverbs 6:6Walk in the manner of the ant, O slacker; observe its ways and become wise.Proverbs 6:7Without a commander, without an overseer or ruler,Proverbs 6:8it prepares its provisions in summer; it gathers its food at harvest.Proverbs 6:9How long will you lie there, O slacker? When will you get up from your sleep?Proverbs 6:10A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,Proverbs 6:11and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and need like a bandit.Proverbs 10:4Idle hands make one poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.Proverbs 10:5He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son.Proverbs 10:26Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so is the slacker to those who send him.Proverbs 12:9Better to be lightly esteemed yet have a servant, than to be self-important but lack food.Proverbs 12:24The hand of the diligent will rule, but laziness ends in forced labor.Proverbs 12:27A lazy man does not roast his game, but a diligent man prizes his possession.Proverbs 13:4The slacker craves yet has nothing, but the soul of the diligent is fully satisfied.Proverbs 14:23There is profit in all labor, but mere talk leads only to poverty.Proverbs 15:19The way of the slacker is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a highway.Proverbs 18:9Whoever is slothful in his work is brother to him who destroys.Proverbs 19:15Laziness brings on deep sleep, and an idle soul will suffer hunger.Proverbs 19:24The slacker buries his hand in the dish; he will not even bring it back to his mouth.Proverbs 20:4The slacker does not plow in season; at harvest time he looks, but nothing is there.Proverbs 20:13Do not love sleep, or you will grow poor; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of food.Proverbs 21:25The craving of the slacker kills him because his hands refuse to work.Proverbs 21:26All day long he covets more, but the righteous give without restraint.Proverbs 22:13The slacker says, “There is a lion outside! I will be slain in the streets!”Proverbs 23:21For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.Proverbs 24:30I went past the field of a slacker and by the vineyard of a man lacking judgment.Proverbs 24:31Thorns had grown up everywhere, thistles had covered the ground, and the stone wall was broken down.Proverbs 24:32I observed and took it to heart; I looked and received instruction:Proverbs 24:33A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,Proverbs 24:34and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and need like a bandit.Proverbs 26:13The slacker says, “A lion is in the road! A fierce lion roams the public square!”Proverbs 26:14As a door turns on its hinges, so the slacker turns on his bed.Proverbs 26:15The slacker buries his hand in the dish; it wearies him to bring it back to his mouth.Proverbs 26:16The slacker is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer discreetly.Ecclesiastes 4:5The fool folds his hands and consumes his own flesh.Ecclesiastes 10:18Through laziness the roof caves in, and in the hands of the idle, the house leaks.Isaiah 56:10Israel’s watchmen are blind, they are all oblivious; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; they are dreamers lying around, loving to slumber.Matthew 20:6About the eleventh hour he went out and found still others standing around. ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’ he asked.Matthew 20:7‘Because no one has hired us,’ they answered. So he told them, ‘You also go into my vineyard.’Luke 19:20Then another servant came and said, ‘Master, here is your mina, which I have laid away in a piece of cloth.Luke 19:21For I was afraid of you, because you are a harsh man. You withdraw what you did not deposit and reap what you did not sow.’Luke 19:22His master replied, ‘You wicked servant, I will judge you by your own words. So you knew that I am a harsh man, withdrawing what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?Luke 19:23Why then did you not deposit my money in the bank, and upon my return I could have collected it with interest?’Luke 19:24Then he told those standing by, ‘Take the mina from him and give it to the one who has ten minas.’Luke 19:25‘Master,’ they said, ‘he already has ten!’Acts 17:21Now all the Athenians and foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing more than hearing and articulating new ideas.2 Thessalonians 3:10For even while we were with you, we gave you this command: “If anyone is unwilling to work, he shall not eat.”2 Thessalonians 3:11For we hear that some of you are leading undisciplined lives, accomplishing nothing, but being busybodies.1 Timothy 5:13At the same time they will also learn to be idle, going from house to house and being not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, discussing things they should not mention.
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