TOPICAL BIBLE
Idleness
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Proverbs 6:6Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;Proverbs 6:7which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,Proverbs 6:8provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.Proverbs 6:9How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?Proverbs 6:10A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:Proverbs 6:11so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.Proverbs 10:4He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.Proverbs 10:5He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during the harvest is a son who causes shame.Proverbs 10:26As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.Proverbs 12:9Better is he who is lightly esteemed, and has a servant, than he who honors himself, and lacks bread.Proverbs 12:24The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.Proverbs 12:27The slothful man doesn’t roast his game, but the possessions of diligent men are prized.Proverbs 13:4The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.Proverbs 14:23In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.Proverbs 15:19The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, but the path of the upright is a highway.Proverbs 18:9One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.Proverbs 19:15Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.Proverbs 19:24The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.Proverbs 20:4The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.Proverbs 20:13Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.Proverbs 21:25The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.Proverbs 21:26There are those who covet greedily all day long; but the righteous give and don’t withhold.Proverbs 22:13The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!”Proverbs 23:21for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.Proverbs 24:30I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;Proverbs 24:31Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.Proverbs 24:32Then I saw, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction:Proverbs 24:33a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep;Proverbs 24:34so your poverty will come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.Proverbs 26:13The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road! A fierce lion roams the streets!”Proverbs 26:14As the door turns on its hinges, so does the sluggard on his bed.Proverbs 26:15The sluggard buries his hand in the dish. He is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.Proverbs 26:16The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer with discretion.Ecclesiastes 4:5The fool folds his hands together and ruins himself.Ecclesiastes 10:18By slothfulness the roof sinks in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.Isaiah 56:10His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all mute dogs, they can’t bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.Matthew 20:6About the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle. He said to them, ‘Why do you stand here all day idle?’Matthew 20:7“They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ “He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and you will receive whatever is right.’Luke 19:20Another came, saying, ‘Lord, behold, your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief,Luke 19:21for I feared you, because you are an exacting man. You take up that which you didn’t lay down, and reap that which you didn’t sow.’Luke 19:22“He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn’t lay down, and reaping that which I didn’t sow.Luke 19:23Then why didn’t you deposit my money in the bank, and at my coming, I might have earned interest on it?’Luke 19:24He said to those who stood by, ‘Take the mina away from him, and give it to him who has the ten minas.’Luke 19:25“They said to him, ‘Lord, he has ten minas!’Acts 17:21Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.2 Thessalonians 3:10For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone will not work, neither let him eat.”2 Thessalonians 3:11For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don’t work at all, but are busybodies.1 Timothy 5:13Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.
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