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1 Timothy 5 13
Besides that, they learn to be idlers, going about from house to house, and not only idlers, but also gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not.
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Proverbs 19:15
Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger.
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Acts 17:17-21
So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there.Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also conversed with him. And some said,“ What does this babbler wish to say?” Others said,“ He seems to be a preacher of foreign divinities”— because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection.And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying,“ May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?For you bring some strange things to our ears. We wish to know therefore what these things mean.”Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there would spend their time in nothing except telling or hearing something new.
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Acts 2:15
For these people are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is only the third hour of the day.
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Ezekiel 16:49
Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.
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Matthew 20:6-7
And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing. And he said to them,‘ Why do you stand here idle all day?’They said to him,‘ Because no one has hired us.’ He said to them,‘ You go into the vineyard too.’
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Mark 15:25
And it was the third hour when they crucified him.
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Matthew 11:16-17
“ But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to their playmates,“‘ We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’
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Hebrews 6:12
so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.