Laziness - There's A Scripture For That (NIV) Version

Lazy hands make for poverty, but diligent hands bring wealth.

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

Genesis 2:15 (NIV)
The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.

Exodus 5:8 (NIV)
But require them to make the same number of bricks as before; don’t reduce the quota. They
are lazy; that is why they are crying out, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’

Proverbs 6:6 (NIV)
Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise!

Proverbs 10:4 (NIV)
Lazy hands make for poverty, but diligent hands bring wealth.

Proverbs 10:5 (NIV)
He who gathers crops in summer is a prudent son, but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son.

Proverbs 10:26 (NIV)
As vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so are sluggards to those who send them.

Proverbs 12:24 (NIV)
Diligent hands will rule, but laziness ends in forced labor.

Proverbs 12:27 (NIV)
The lazy do not roast any game, but the diligent feed on the riches of the hunt.

Proverbs 13:4 (NIV)
A sluggard’s appetite is never filled, but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.

Proverbs 18:9 (NIV)
One who is slack in his work is brother to one who destroys.

Proverbs 19:15 (NIV)
Laziness brings on deep sleep, and the shiftless go hungry.

Proverbs 20:4 (NIV)
Sluggards do not plow in season; so at harvest time they look but find nothing.

Proverbs 20:13 (NIV)
Do not love sleep or you will grow poor; stay awake and you will have food to spare.

Proverbs 21:25 (NIV)
The craving of a sluggard will be the death of him, because his hands refuse to work.

Proverbs 26:15 (NIV)
A sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.

Ecclesiastes 9:10 (NIV)
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.

Ecclesiastes 10:18 (NIV)
Through laziness, the rafters sag; because of idle hands, the house leaks

Matthew 25:26 (NIV)
“His master replied, ‘You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed?

Ephesians 4:28 (NIV)
Anyone who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing something useful with their own hands, that they may have something to share with those in need.

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

Colossians 3:23 (NIV)
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters,

2 Thessalonians 3:10 (NIV)
For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.”

1 Timothy 5:8 (NIV)
Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

2 Timothy 2:15 (NIV)
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.

Titus 1:12-14 (NIV)
One of Crete’s own prophets has said it: “Cretans are always liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons.” 13. This saying is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, so that they will be sound in the faith 14. and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the merely human commands of those who reject the truth.

Hebrews 6:12 (NIV)
We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.

James 1:22 (NIV)
Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.

James 1:23 (NIV)
Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror