Synonyms for Laziness: idleness, listlessness, sloth, indolence, languor, dullness, drowsiness, inactivity, passivity, slowness, slackness, sleepiness, sluggishness, torpidity, laxness, shiftlessness, and slothfulness

Genesis 2:15 (ESV)
The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.

Exodus 5:8 (ESV)
But the number of bricks that they made in the past you shall impose on them, you shall by no means reduce it, for they are idle. Therefore they cry, ‘Let us go and offer sacrifice to our God.’

Proverbs 6:6 (ESV)
Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.

Proverbs 10:4 (ESV)
A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

Proverbs 10:5 (ESV)
He who gathers in summer is a prudent son, but he who sleeps in harvest is a son who brings shame.

Proverbs 10:26 (ESV)
Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.

Proverbs 12:24 (ESV)
The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor.

Proverbs 12:27 (ESV)
Whoever is slothful will not roast his game, but the diligent man will get precious wealth.

Proverbs 13:4 (ESV)
The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.

Proverbs 18:9 (ESV)
Whoever is slack in his work is a brother to him who destroys.

Proverbs 19:15 (ESV)
Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger.

Proverbs 20:4 (ESV)
The sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing.

Proverbs 20:13 (ESV)
Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.

Proverbs 21:25 (ESV)
The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.

Proverbs 26:15 (ESV)
The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; it wears him out to bring it back to his mouth.

Ecclesiastes 9:10 (ESV)
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.

Ecclesiastes 10:18 (ESV)
Through sloth the roof sinks in, and through indolence the house leaks.

Matthew 25:26 (ESV)
But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed?

Ephesians 4:28 (ESV)
Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.

Colossians 3:17 (ESV)
And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Colossians 3:23 (ESV)
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

2 Thessalonians 3:10 (ESV)
For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.

1 Timothy 5:8 (ESV)
But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

2 Timothy 2:15 (ESV)
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

Titus 1:12-14 (ESV)
One of the Cretans, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.” 13. This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith, 14. not devoting themselves to Jewish myths and the commands of people who turn away from the truth.

Hebrews 6:12 (ESV)
so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

James 1:22 (ESV)
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

James 1:23 (ESV)
For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror.

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