TOPICAL BIBLE
Slothfulness
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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 12:24The 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 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 21:25The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.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 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 25:26“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.Matthew 25:27You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest.Romans 12:11not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;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.2 Thessalonians 3:12Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.Hebrews 6:12that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises.
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