Bible Verses About Laziness (34+ Verses)

"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."

"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."

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

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

"The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labor."

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

"Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger."

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

"The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor."

"As the door turns on its hinges, so does the sluggard on his bed."

"For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone will not work, don’t let him eat.”"

"And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,"

"Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going."

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

"that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises."

"In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty."

"But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever."

"By slothfulness the roof sinks in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks."

"I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down. Then I saw, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction: a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep; so your poverty will come as a robber, and your want as an armed man."

"Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread."

"To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin."

"The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road! A fierce lion roams the streets!” As the door turns on its hinges, so does the sluggard on his bed. The sluggard buries his hand in the dish. He is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth. The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer with discretion."

"But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves."

"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 don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased."

"Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it."

"Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth."

"The slothful man doesn’t roast his game, but the possessions of diligent men are prized."

"Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win. Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air, but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected."

"Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need."

"Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him."

"All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby."

"The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, but the path of the upright is a highway."

"“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. 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.’"