| Go to the ant, O sluggard,
observe her ways and be wise, how long will you lie down, O sluggard?
When will you arise from your sleep?
Proverbs 6:6
Make it your ambition to lead a quiet
life and attend to your own business and work with your hands,
just as we commanded you, so that you will behave properly
toward outsiders and not be in any need.
1 Thessalonians 4:11-12
Not lagging behind in diligence,
fervent in spirit, serving the Lord.
Romans 12:11
He who tills his land will have
plenty of food, but he who follows empty pursuits
will have poverty in plenty.
Proverbs 28:19
Poor is he who works with a negligent
hand, but the hand of the diligent makes rich. He who gathers
in summer is a son who acts wisely, but he who sleeps in
harvest is a son who acts shamefully.
Proverbs 10:4-5
For even when we were with you, we
used to give you this order: if anyone is not willing to
work, then he is not to eat, either. For we hear that some
among you are leading an undisciplined life, doing no work
at all, but acting like busybodies. Now such persons we command
and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ to work in quiet fashion
and eat their own bread.
2 Thessalonians 3:10-12
Poor is he who works with
a negligent hand, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.
Proverbs 10:4
The soul of the sluggard craves and
gets nothing, but the soul of the diligent is made fat.
Proverbs 13:4
The way of the lazy is as a hedge of
thorns, but the path of the upright is a highway.
Proverbs 15:19
Laziness casts into a deep sleep, and
an idle man will suffer hunger. The sluggard buries his hand
in the dish, but will not even bring it back to his mouth.
Proverbs 19:15,24
The sluggard does not plow after
the autumn, so he begs during the harvest and has nothing.
Proverbs 20:4
As the door turns on its hinges, so
does the sluggard on his bed.
Proverbs 26:14
Here is what I have seen to
be good and fitting: to eat, to drink and enjoy oneself
in all one's labor in which he toils under the sun
during the few years of his life which God has given
him; for this is his reward.
Furthermore, as for every man to whom God has given riches and wealth, He has
also empowered him to eat from them and to receive his reward and rejoice in
his labor; this is the gift of God.
Ecclesiastes 5:18-19
The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than
seven men who can give a discreet answer.
Proverbs 26:16
His master answered and said to him, "You
wicked, lazy slave, you knew that I reap where I did not
sow and gather where I scattered no seed. Then you ought
to have put my money in the bank, and on my arrival I would
have received my money back with interest."
Matthew 25:26-27
So that you will not be sluggish,
but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit
the promises.
Hebrews 6:12
The hand of the diligent will rule, but
the slack hand will be put to forced labor.
Proverbs 12:24
A lazy man does not roast his prey,
but the precious possession of a man is diligence.
Proverbs 12:27
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