Bible Verses About Idleness and Sloth: Want
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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 Want
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.