Bible Verses About Slothfulness

The lazy person says, "There's a lion in the streets! A lion is roaming loose out there!"

The door turns on its hinges, and the lazy man on his bed.

The lazy person buries his hand in the dish but is too tired to return it to his mouth.

A lazy man is wiser in his own view than seven who can answer with sense.

When the owner is lazy, the roof sags; when hands are idle, the house leaks.

[Isra'el's] watchmen are, all of them, blind; they don't know anything. They are all dumb dogs, unable to bark, lying there dreaming, loving to sleep.

`You wicked, lazy servant!' said his master, `So you knew, did you, that I harvest where I haven't planted? and that I gather where I didn't sow seed?

Then you should have deposited my money with the bankers, so that when I returned, I would at least have gotten back interest with my capital!

Don’t be lazy when hard work is needed, but serve the Lord with spiritual fervor.

For even when we were with you, we gave you this command: if someone won’t work, he shouldn’t eat!

We hear that some of you are leading a life of idleness — not busy working, just busybodies!

We command such people — and in union with the Lord Yeshua the Messiah we urge them — to settle down, get to work, and earn their own living.

so that you will not become sluggish, but will be imitators of those who by their trust and patience are receiving what has been promised.