9 Bible Verses About Laziness

9 Bible verses about Laziness to read, reflect on, and commit to memory.

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01 Proverbs 6:6 Key verse

You lazy one, go and look at the ant; watch how it lives, and learn wisdom.

02 Proverbs 13:4

The lazy want and want but get nothing, while the diligent are fully satisfied.

03 Proverbs 20:4

The lazy will not plow in the cold season; at harvest they look for a crop and find nothing.

04 Proverbs 24:30-31

I walked past the field of someone lazy, past the vineyard of someone with no sense, and I saw thorns had sprung up everywhere, weeds had covered the ground, and its stone wall lay in ruins.

05 2 Thessalonians 3:10

For even while we were with you, we gave you this instruction: “Anyone who will not work should not eat.”

06 Proverbs 19:15

Laziness brings on deep sleep, and an idle person will go hungry.

07 Proverbs 26:14

As a door swings back and forth on its hinge, so the lazy one turns over in bed.

08 Proverbs 21:25

The lazy one’s cravings will be the death of them, because their hands refuse to work.

09 Ecclesiastes 10:18

Through laziness the roof beams sag, and through idle hands the house leaks.

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