Bible Verses about “idleness”
The Bible contains 17 verses about idleness across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“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.”
“For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don't work at all, but are busybodies.”
“The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.”
“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.”
“a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep;”
“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:”
“The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.”
“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.”
“By slothfulness the roof sinks in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.”