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Proverbs 13:4
A sluggard’s appetite is never filled, but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied. (niv)
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Proverbs 20:4
Sluggards do not plow in season; so at harvest time they look but find nothing. (niv)
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Matthew 25:26
“ His master replied,‘ You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed? (niv)
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Proverbs 10:26
As vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so are sluggards to those who send them. (niv)
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Proverbs 30:25
Ants are creatures of little strength, yet they store up their food in the summer; (niv)
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Proverbs 18:9
One who is slack in his work is brother to one who destroys. (niv)
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Proverbs 6:9
How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep? (niv)
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Hebrews 6:12
We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised. (niv)
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Romans 12:11
Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. (niv)
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Proverbs 26:13-16
A sluggard says,“ There’s a lion in the road, a fierce lion roaming the streets!”As a door turns on its hinges, so a sluggard turns on his bed.A sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.A sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven people who answer discreetly. (niv)
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Proverbs 24:30-34
I went past the field of a sluggard, past the vineyard of someone who has no sense;thorns had come up everywhere, the ground was covered with weeds, and the stone wall was in ruins.I applied my heart to what I observed and learned a lesson from what I saw:A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest—and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man. (niv)
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Job 12:7-8
“ But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you;or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you. (niv)
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Proverbs 21:25
The craving of a sluggard will be the death of him, because his hands refuse to work. (niv)
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Proverbs 22:13
The sluggard says,“ There’s a lion outside! I’ll be killed in the public square!” (niv)
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Proverbs 19:24
A sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he will not even bring it back to his mouth! (niv)
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Proverbs 19:15
Laziness brings on deep sleep, and the shiftless go hungry. (niv)
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Proverbs 15:19
The way of the sluggard is blocked with thorns, but the path of the upright is a highway. (niv)
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Proverbs 1:17
How useless to spread a net where every bird can see it! (niv)
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Matthew 6:26
Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? (niv)
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Isaiah 1:3
The ox knows its master, the donkey its owner’s manger, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” (niv)