BIBLE VERSES ON LAZINESS

Be guided by these Bible verses on laziness:

How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep? A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest — and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man.
Proverbs 6:9-11

Lazy hands make for poverty, but diligent hands bring wealth.
Proverbs 10:4

Laziness brings on deep sleep, and the shiftless go hungry.
Proverbs 19:15

Sluggards do not plow in season; so at harvest time they look but find nothing.
Proverbs 20:4

Do not love sleep or you will grow poor; stay awake and you will have food to spare.
Proverbs 20:13

Those who work their land will have abundant food, but those who chase fantasies will have their fill of poverty.
Proverbs 28:19

Through laziness, the rafters sag; because of idle hands, the house leaks.
Ecclesiastes 10:18

For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.”
II Thessalonians 3:10

We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.
Hebrews 6:12