Bible Verses about “sluggard”
The Bible contains 22 verses about sluggard across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“But if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.”
“And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,”
“Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.”
“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.”
“The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.”
“He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.”
“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?”
“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.”
“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.”
“A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.”
“The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.”
“As the door turns on its hinges, so does the sluggard on his bed.”