Bible Verses about “idle time”
The Bible contains 28 verses about idle time across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“redeeming the time, because the days are evil.”
“Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise;”
“For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: "If anyone will not work, neither let him eat."”
“She looks well to the ways of her household, and doesn't eat the bread of idleness.”
“As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.”
“For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don't work at all, but are busybodies.”
“I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.”
“Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;”
“which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,”
“provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.”
“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.”
“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.”
“One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.”
“How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?”
“In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.”
“A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:”
“a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep;”
“so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.”
“Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.”
“so your poverty will come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.”
“The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.”
“I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;”
“Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.”
“Then I saw, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction:”
“He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.”
“One of them, a prophet of their own, said, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons."”
“By slothfulness the roof sinks in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.”
“Let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.”