Idleness and Sloth
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Idleness and Sloth’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
Showing 1–24 of 28 verses grouped under this topic.
Torrey's New Topical Textbook
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
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Romans 12:11 NT
not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
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Hebrews 6:12 NT
that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.
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The slothful man doesn’t roast his game, but the possessions of diligent men are prized.
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The sluggard buries his hand in the dish. He is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.
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One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.
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The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer with discretion.
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He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.
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Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
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The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
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so your poverty will come as a robber and your want as an armed man.
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Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.
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The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.
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The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.
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The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.
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I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding:
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Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.
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By slothfulness the roof sinks in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.
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Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.
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I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding: Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down. Then I saw, and considered well. I…
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Proverbs 6:6 OT
Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;
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Proverbs 6:9 OT
How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?
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The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!”
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As the door turns on its hinges, so does the sluggard on his bed.
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But he who received the one talent went away and dug in the earth, and hid his lord’s money.