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 25–28 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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“But his lord answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn’t sow, and gather where I didn’t scatter.
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Isaiah 56:10 OT
His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They can’t bark— dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
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Acts 17:21 NT
Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.
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For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don’t work at all, but are busybodies.