Bible Verses About Laziness
9 Bible verses about Laziness to read, reflect on, and commit to memory.
Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;
The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
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.
For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone will not work, neither let him eat.”
Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.
As the door turns on its hinges, so does the sluggard on his bed.
The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.
By slothfulness the roof sinks in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.