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1 Timothy 5 13
At the same time, they also learn to be idle, going from house to house; they are not only idle, but are also gossips and busybodies, saying things they shouldn’t say.
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Proverbs 19:15
Laziness induces deep sleep, and a lazy person will go hungry.
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Acts 17:17-21
So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and with those who worshiped God, as well as in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there.Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also debated with him. Some said,“ What is this ignorant show-off trying to say?” Others replied,“ He seems to be a preacher of foreign deities”— because he was telling the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.They took him and brought him to the Areopagus, and said,“ May we learn about this new teaching you are presenting?Because what you say sounds strange to us, and we want to know what these things mean.”Now all the Athenians and the foreigners residing there spent their time on nothing else but telling or hearing something new.
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Acts 2:15
For these people are not drunk, as you suppose, since it’s only nine in the morning.
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Ezekiel 16:49
Now this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters had pride, plenty of food, and comfortable security, but didn’t support the poor and needy.
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Matthew 20:6-7
Then about five he went and found others standing around and said to them,‘ Why have you been standing here all day doing nothing?’“‘ Because no one hired us,’ they said to him.“‘ You also go into my vineyard,’ he told them.
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Mark 15:25
Now it was nine in the morning when they crucified him.
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Matthew 11:16-17
“ To what should I compare this generation? It’s like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to other children:We played the flute for you, but you didn’t dance; we sang a lament, but you didn’t mourn!
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Hebrews 6:12
so that you won’t become lazy but will be imitators of those who inherit the promises through faith and perseverance.