Description

This verse set is about laziness.

Verses

  • 1 Thessalonians 4:11: to aspire to lead a quiet life, to attend to your own business, and to work with your hands, as we commanded you.

  • 1 Thessalonians 4:12: In this way you will live a decent life before outsiders and not be in need.

  • Romans 12:11: Do not lag in zeal, be enthusiastic in spirit, serve the Lord.

  • Proverbs 28:19: The one who works his land will be satisfied with food, but whoever chases daydreams will have his fill of poverty.

  • Proverbs 13:4: The appetite of the sluggard craves but gets nothing, but the desire of the diligent will be abundantly satisfied.

  • Proverbs 10:4: The one who is lazy becomes poor, but the one who works diligently becomes wealthy.

  • Proverbs 10:5: The one who gathers crops in the summer is a wise son, but the one who sleeps during the harvest is a son who brings shame to himself.

  • Proverbs 13:23: There is abundant food in the field of the poor, but it is swept away by injustice.

  • 2 Timothy 2:6: The farmer who works hard ought to have the first share of the crops.

  • 2 Thessalonians 3:10: For even when we were with you, we used to give you this command: "If anyone is not willing to work, neither should he eat."

  • 2 Thessalonians 3:11: For we hear that some among you are living an undisciplined life, not doing their own work but meddling in the work of others.

  • 2 Thessalonians 3:12: Now such people we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to work quietly and so provide their own food to eat.

  • Proverbs 20:13: Do not love sleep, lest you become impoverished; open your eyes so that you might be satisfied with food.

  • Proverbs 15:19: The way of the sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is like a highway.

  • Proverbs 27:23: Pay careful attention to the condition of your flocks, give careful attention to your herds,

  • Proverbs 21:5: The plans of the diligent lead only to plenty, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.

  • Proverbs 12:24: The diligent person will rule, but the slothful will become a slave.

  • Ephesians 4:28: The one who steals must steal no longer; rather he must labor, doing good with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with the one who has need.

  • Proverbs 12:11: The one who works his field will have plenty of food, but whoever chases daydreams lacks wisdom.

  • Proverbs 27:27: And there will be enough goat's milk for your food, for the food of your household, and for the sustenance of your servant girls.

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Put together by ScriptureLearner21.
Created on Jan 12, 2016.

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