Idleness

Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.

Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.

By slothfulness the roof sinks in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.

She looks well to the ways of her household, and doesn’t eat the bread of idleness.

The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone will not work, neither let him eat.”

I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; — read the full passage →

The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.

For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don’t work at all, but are busybodies.

One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.

Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.

The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.

We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the faint-hearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.

I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

The slothful man doesn’t roast his game, but the possessions of diligent men are prized.

Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;

About the eleventh hourhe went out, and found others standing idle. He said to them, ‘Why do you stand here all day idle?’

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone will not work, neither let him eat.” — read the full passage →

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road! A fierce lion roams the streets!” — read the full passage →

The fool folds his hands together and ruins himself.

He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth. — read the full passage →

Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise; — read the full passage →

The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, but the path of the upright is a highway.

and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you; — read the full passage →

The number of the bricks, which they made before, you require from them. You shall not diminish anything of it, for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’

The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer with discretion.

He went out about the third hour,and saw others standing idle in the marketplace.

The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!”

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor. — read the full passage →

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

These words seemed to them to be nonsense, and they didn’t believe them.

The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

But he said, “You are idle! You are idle! Therefore you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to Yahweh.’

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

so your poverty will come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.

As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.

not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

The sluggard buries his hand in the dish. He is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.

For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us. — read the full passage →

Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us. — read the full passage →

For you know how you ought to imitate us. For we didn’t behave ourselves rebelliously among you, — read the full passage →

I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;

His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all mute dogs, they can’t bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?

Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

He who doesn’t take his cross and follow after me, isn’t worthy of me.

As the door turns on its hinges, so does the sluggard on his bed.

I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; — read the full passage →

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;

He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during the harvest is a son who causes shame.

nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate; but rather giving of thanks.

You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me. — read the full passage →

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep? — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Better is he who is lightly esteemed, and has a servant, than he who honors himself, and lacks bread.

If any man doesn’t obey our word in this letter, note that man, that you have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of the knowledge which is falsely so called;

Then he said to them, “The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that he may send out laborers into his harvest.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

One who works his land will have an abundance of food; but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road! A fierce lion roams the streets!”

But above all things, my brothers, don’t swear, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your “yes” be “yes”, and your “no”, “no”; so that you don’t fall into hypocrisy.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep;

For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or a meddler in other men’s matters.

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife. — read the full passage →

The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

“But his lord answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn’t sow, and gather where I didn’t scatter.

But Jesus answered them, “My Father is still working, so I am working, too.”

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise; — read the full passage →

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises.

neither did we eat bread from anyone’s hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you; — read the full passage →

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; — read the full passage →

But he who received the one went away and dug in the earth, and hid his lord’s money.