Best 20 Bible Verses About Laziness

Laziness is a lifestyle for some people and a temptation for everyone. The Bible is very clear in many verses that God ordained work from man and laziness is sinful.  There are also many warnings about being lazy and how the end is near for lazy people.

Here are our best 20 Bible verses about laziness!

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The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.

- Proverbs 21:25

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The sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing.

- Proverbs 20:4

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Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger.

- Proverbs 19:15

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Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.

- Proverbs 20:13

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The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.

- Proverbs 13:4

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

- James 1:22

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Whoever is slack in his work is a brother to him who destroys.

- Proverbs 18:9

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The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor.

- Proverbs 12:24

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Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.

- Proverbs 6:6

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But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.”

- John 5:17

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For we hear that some among you walk in idleness, not busy at work, but busybodies. Now such persons we command and encourage in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living.

- 2 Thessalonians 3:11-12

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For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.

- 2 Thessalonians 3:10

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The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.

- Genesis 2:15

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In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.

- Proverbs 14:23

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A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

- Proverbs 10:4

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So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

- James 4:17

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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.

- 2 Timothy 2:15

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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.

- 1 Timothy 5:8

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Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

- Colossians 3:23

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Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.

- Hebrews 13:16

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Hopefully these Bible verses motivated you to not be lazy and let laziness overcome you. Please share this page with others so they too can benefit from the Word of God.