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Proverbs 13:4
The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing; But the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
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Proverbs 20:4
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; Therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
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Matthew 25:26
But his lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I did not scatter;
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Proverbs 10:26
As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, So is the sluggard to them that send him.
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Proverbs 30:25
The ants are a people not strong, Yet they provide their food in the summer;
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Proverbs 18:9
He also that is slack in his work Is brother to him that is a destroyer.
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Proverbs 6:9
How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
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Hebrews 6:12
that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
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Romans 12:11
in diligence not slothful; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
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Proverbs 26:13-16
The sluggard saith, There is a lion in the way; A lion is in the streets.As the door turneth upon its hinges, So doth the sluggard upon his bed.The sluggard burieth his hand in the dish; It wearieth him to bring it again to his mouth.The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit Than seven men that can render a reason.
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Proverbs 24:30-34
I went by the field of the sluggard, And by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, The face thereof was covered with nettles, And the stone wall thereof was broken down.Then I beheld, and considered well; I saw, and received instruction:Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep;So shall thy poverty come as a robber, And thy want as an armed man.
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Job 12:7-8
But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; And the birds of the heavens, and they shall tell thee:Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; And the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
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Proverbs 21:25
The desire of the sluggard killeth him; For his hands refuse to labor.
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Proverbs 22:13
The sluggard saith, There is a lion without; I shall be slain in the streets.
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Proverbs 19:24
The sluggard burieth his hand in the dish, And will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.
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Proverbs 19:15
Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; And the idle soul shall suffer hunger.
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Proverbs 15:19
The way of the sluggard is as a hedge of thorns; But the path of the upright is made a highway.
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Proverbs 1:17
For in vain is the net spread In the sight of any bird:
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Matthew 6:26
Behold the birds of the heaven, that they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not ye of much more value than they?
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Isaiah 1:3
The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib; but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.