Bible Cross References
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Proverbs 6:6-11
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Lazy people should learn a lesson from the way ants live.
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They have no leader, chief, or ruler,
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but they store up their food during the summer, getting ready for winter.
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How long is the lazy man going to lie around? When is he ever going to get up?
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"I'll just take a short nap," he says; "I'll fold my hands and rest a while."
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But while he sleeps, poverty will attack him like an armed robber.
Proverbs 11:24
Some people spend their money freely and still grow richer. Others are cautious, and yet grow poorer.
Proverbs 12:24
Hard work will give you power; being lazy will make you a slave.
Proverbs 19:15
Go ahead and be lazy; sleep on, but you will go hungry.
Proverbs 19:24
Some people are too lazy to put food in their own mouths.
Proverbs 20:4
A farmer too lazy to plow his fields at the right time will have nothing to harvest.
Proverbs 20:13
If you spend your time sleeping, you will be poor. Keep busy and you will have plenty to eat.
Proverbs 24:30-34
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I walked through the fields and vineyards of a lazy, stupid person.
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They were full of thorn bushes and overgrown with weeds. The stone wall around them had fallen down.
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I looked at this, thought about it, and learned a lesson from it:
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Go ahead and take your nap; go ahead and sleep. Fold your hands and rest awhile,
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but while you are asleep, poverty will attack you like an armed robber.
Ecclesiastes 10:18
When you are too lazy to repair your roof, it will leak, and the house will fall in.
John 6:27
Do not work for food that spoils; instead, work for the food that lasts for eternal life. This is the food which the Son of Man will give you, because God, the Father, has put his mark of approval on him."
Hebrews 6:11
Our great desire is that each of you keep up your eagerness to the end, so that the things you hope for will come true.
Hebrews 6:12
We do not want you to become lazy, but to be like those who believe and are patient, and so receive what God has promised.
2 Peter 1:5-10
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For this very reason do your best to add goodness to your faith; to your goodness add knowledge;
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to your knowledge add self-control; to your self-control add endurance; to your endurance add godliness;
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to your godliness add Christian affection; and to your Christian affection add love.
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These are the qualities you need, and if you have them in abundance, they will make you active and effective in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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But if you do not have them, you are so shortsighted that you cannot see and have forgotten that you have been purified from your past sins.
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So then, my friends, try even harder to make God's call and his choice of you a permanent experience; if you do so, you will never abandon your faith.
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Proverbs 13:4
No matter how much a lazy person may want something, he will never get it. A hard worker will get everything he wants.
Proverbs 21:5
Plan carefully and you will have plenty; if you act too quickly, you will never have enough.
1 Corinthians 15:58
So then, my dear friends, stand firm and steady. Keep busy always in your work for the Lord, since you know that nothing you do in the Lord's service is ever useless.