Bible Verses About Idleness and Sloth: Ruin
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Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.
Verses on Ruin
30I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;
31And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.