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Want to know what the Bible says about Lazy People? Here are 68 Bible verses about Lazy People from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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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.”
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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.
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Proverbs 10:4 NIV
Lazy hands make for poverty,
    but diligent hands bring wealth.
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Proverbs 13:4 NIV
A sluggard’s appetite is never filled,
    but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.
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Proverbs 6:9-11 NIV
9 How long will you lie there, you sluggard?
    When will you get up from your sleep?
10 A little sleep, a little slumber,
    a little folding of the hands to rest
11 and poverty will come on you like a thief
    and scarcity like an armed man.
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Proverbs 19:24 NIV
A sluggard buries his hand in the dish;
    he will not even bring it back to his mouth!
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Proverbs 20:4 NIV
Sluggards do not plow in season;
    so at harvest time they look but find nothing.
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Proverbs 12:24 NIV
Diligent hands will rule,
    but laziness ends in forced labor.
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Proverbs 6:6 NIV
Go to the ant, you sluggard;
    consider its ways and be wise!
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Proverbs 28:19 NIV
Those who work their land will have abundant food,
    but those who chase fantasies will have their fill of poverty.
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Psalm 50:17 NIV
You hate my instruction
    and cast my words behind you.
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Proverbs 14:23 NIV
All hard work brings a profit,
    but mere talk leads only to poverty.
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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.
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Proverbs 10:5 NIV
He who gathers crops in summer is a prudent son,
    but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son.
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Proverbs 13:1 NIV
A wise son heeds his father’s instruction,
    but a mocker does not respond to rebukes.
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Proverbs 19:15 NIV
Laziness brings on deep sleep,
    and the shiftless go hungry.
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Proverbs 18:9 NIV
One who is slack in his work
    is brother to one who destroys.
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Proverbs 10:26 NIV
As vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes,
    so are sluggards to those who send them.
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Proverbs 15:19 NIV
The way of the sluggard is blocked with thorns,
    but the path of the upright is a highway.
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James 4:14 NIV
Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
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