BIBLE PROVERBS:LAZINESS AND PASSIVITY
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 Lazy people should learn a lesson from the way ants live. They have no leader, chief, or ruler, but they store up their food during the summer, getting ready for winter.-BIBLE PROVERBS 6:6-8
- How long is the lazy man going to lie in bed? When is he ever going to get up? "I'll just take a short nap", he says; "I'll fold my hands and rest a while." But while he sleeps, poverty will attack him like an armed robber.-BIBLE PROVERBS 6:9-11
- Being lazy will make you poor, but hard work will make you rich.-BIBLE PROVERBS 10:4
- A sensible man gathers the crops when they are ready; it is a disgrace to sleep through the time of harvest.-BIBLE PROVERBS 10:5
- Never get a lazy man to do something for you; he will be as irritating as vinegar on your teeth or smoke in your eyes.-BIBLE PROVERBS 10:26
- A lazy man will never have money, but an aggressive man will get rich.-BIBLE PROVERBS 11:16
- It is better to be an ordinary man working for a living than to play the part of a great man but go hungry.-BIBLE PROVERBS 12:9
- A hard-working farmer has plenty to eat, but it is stupid to waste time on useless projects.-BIBLE PROVERBS 12:11
- Hard work will give you power; being lazy will make you a slave.-BIBLE PROVERBS 12:24
- If you are lazy, you will never get what you are after, but if you work hard, you will get a fortune.-BIBLE PROVERBS 12:27
- No matter how much lazy person may want something, he will never get it. A hard worker will get everything he wants.-BIBLE PROVERBS 13:4
- The more easily you get your wealth, the sooner you will lose it. The harder it is to earn, the more you will have.-BIBLE PROVERBS 13:11
- Work and you will earn a living; if you sit around talking, you will be poor.-BIBLE PROVERBS 14:23
- If you are lazy, you will meet difficulty everywhere, but if you are honest, you will have no trouble.-BIBLE PROVERBS 15:19
- A labourer's appetite makes him work harder, because he wants to satisfy his hunger.-BIBLE PROVERBS 16:26
- A lazy person is as bad as someone who is destructive.-BIBLE PROVERBS 18:9
- Be lazy if you want to; sleep on, but you will go hungry.-BIBLE PROVERBS 19:15
- Some people are too lazy to put food in their own mouth.-BIBLE PROVERBS 19:24
- A farmer who is too lazy to plough his fields at the right time will have nothing to harvest.-BIBLE PROVERBS 20:4
- If you spend your time sleeping, you will be poor. Keep busy and you will have plenty to eat.-BIBLE PROVERBS 20:13
- The more easily you you get your wealth, the less good it will do you.-BIBLE PROVERBS 20:21
- A lazy man who refuses to work is only killing himself; all he does is think about what he would like to have. A righteous man, however, can give, and give generously.-BIBLE PROVERBS 21:25-26
- The lazy man stays at home; he says a lion might get him if he goes outside.-BIBLE PROVERBS 22:13
- Show me a man who does a good job, and I will show you a man who is better than most and worthy of the company of kings.-BIBLE PROVERBS 22:29
- Drunkards and gluttons will be reduced to poverty. If all you do is eat and sleep, you will soon be wearing rags.-BIBLE PROVERBS 23:21
- I walked through the fields and vineyards of a lazy, stupid man. They were full of thorn bushes and overgrown with weeds. The stone wall round them had fallen down. I looked at this, thought about it, and learnt a lesson from it : Have a nap and sleep if you want to. Fold your hands and rest awhile, but while you are asleep, poverty will attack you like an armed robber.-BIBLE PROVERBS 24:30-34
- Why doesn't the lazy man ever get out of the house? What is he afraid of? Lions? The lazy man gets no farther than a door swinging on its hinges. Some people are too lazy to put food in their own mouths. A lazy man will think he is more intelligent than seven men who can give good reasons for their opinions.-BIBLE PROVERBS 26:13-16
- A hard-working farmer has plenty to eat. People who waste time will always be poor.-BIBLE PROVERBS 28:19
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