Scripture on LAZINESS and POVERTY
compiled by Tuese Ahkiong from NLT
1. Proverbs 6:6-11 Take a lesson from the ants, you lazybones. Learn from their ways and become wise!
7 Though they have no prince or governor or ruler to make them work,
8 they labor hard all summer, gathering food for the winter.
9 But you, lazybones, how long will you sleep?
When will you wake up?
10 A little extra sleep, a little more slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest—
11 then poverty will pounce on you like a bandit; scarcity will attack you like an armed robber.
2. Proverbs 10:4 Lazy people are soon poor; hard workers get rich.
3. Proverbs 10:5 A wise youth harvests in the summer, but one who sleeps during harvest is a disgrace.
4. Proverbs 10:15 The wealth of the rich is their fortress;
the poverty of the poor is their destruction.
5. Proverbs 10:26 Lazy people irritate their employers, like vinegar to the teeth or smoke in the eyes.
6. Proverbs 12:24 Work hard and become a leader;
be lazy and become a slave.
7. Proverbs 12:27 Lazy people don’t even cook the game they catch, but the diligent make use of everything they find.
8. Proverbs 13:4 Lazy people want much but get little, but those who work hard will prosper.
9. Proverbs 13:18 If you ignore criticism, you will end in poverty and disgrace; if you accept correction, you will be honored.
10. Proverbs 14:20 The poor are despised even by their neighbors, while the rich have many “friends.”
11. Proverbs 14:23 Work brings profit, but mere talk leads to poverty!
12. Proverbs 15:19 A lazy person’s way is blocked with briers, but the path of the upright is an open highway.
13. Proverbs 18:9 A lazy person is as bad as someone who destroys things.
14. Proverbs 19:4 Wealth makes many “friends”; poverty drives them all away.
15. Proverbs 19:7 The relatives of the poor despise them; how much more will their friends avoid them!
Though the poor plead with them, their friends are gone.
16. Proverbs 19:15 Lazy people sleep soundly, but idleness leaves them hungry.
17. Proverbs 19:24 Lazy people take food in their hand but don’t even lift it to their mouth.
18. Proverbs 20:4 Those too lazy to plow in the right season will have no food at the harvest.
19. Proverbs 20:13 If you love sleep, you will end in poverty. Keep your eyes open, and there will be plenty to eat!
20. Proverbs 21:5 Good planning and hard work lead to prosperity, but hasty shortcuts lead to poverty.
21. Proverbs 21:17 Those who love pleasure become poor; those who love wine and luxury will never be rich.
22. Proverbs 21:25 Despite their desires, the lazy will come to ruin, for their hands refuse to work.
23. Proverbs 22:7 Just as the rich rule the poor, so the borrower is servant (slave) to the lender.
24. Proverbs 22:16 A person who gets ahead by oppressing the poor or by showering gifts on the rich will end in poverty.
25. Proverbs 22:13 The lazy person claims, “There’s a lion out there! If I go outside, I might be killed!”
26. Proverbs 23:21 for they are on their way to poverty, and too much sleep clothes them in rags.
27. Proverbs 24:30-34 I walked by the field of a lazy person, the vineyard of one with no common sense.31 I saw that it was overgrown with nettles.
It was covered with weeds, and its walls were broken down.32 Then, as I looked and thought about it, I learned this lesson:33 A little extra sleep, a little more slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest—34 then poverty will pounce on you like a bandit; scarcity will attack you like an armed robber.
28. Proverbs 26:13 The lazy person claims, “There’s a lion on the road!
Yes, I’m sure there’s a lion out there!”
**Again lazy people maketh shitteth up as an excuse not to work!
29. Proverbs 26:14 As a door swings back and forth on its hinges, so the lazy person turns over in bed.
30. Proverbs 26:15 Lazy people take food in their hand but don’t even lift it to their mouth.
31. Proverbs 26:16 Lazy people consider themselves smarter than seven wise counselors.
32. Proverbs 28:19 A hard worker has plenty of food, but a person who chases fantasies ends up in poverty.
33. Proverbs 30:7-9 O God, I beg two favors from you; let me have them before I die. 8 First, help me never to tell a lie.
Second, give me neither poverty nor riches! Give me just enough to satisfy my needs.9 For if I grow rich, I may deny you and say, “Who is the Lord?” And if I am too poor, I may steal and thus insult God’s holy name.
34. Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatever you do, do well. For when you go to the grave, there will be no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.
35. Colossians 3:17 And whatever you do or say, do it as a representative of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through him to God the Father.
36. Colossians 3:23 Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people.
37. 1 Thessalonians 4:10-12 Indeed, you already show your love for all the believers throughout Macedonia. Even so, dear brothers and sisters, we urge you to love them even more.11 Make it your goal to live a quiet life, minding your own business and working with your hands, just as we instructed you before. 12 Then people who are not believers will respect the way you live, and you will not need to depend on others.
38. 1 Thessalonians 5:14 Brothers and sisters, we urge you to warn those who are lazy. Encourage those who are timid. Take tender care of those who are weak. Be patient with everyone.
39. 2 Thessalonians 3:10 Even while we were with you, we gave you this command: “Those unwilling to work will not get to eat.”
40. 2 Thessalonians 3:11-12 Yet we hear that some of you are living idle lives, refusing to work and meddling in other people’s business. 12 We command such people and urge them in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to settle down and work to earn their own living.
41. 1 Timothy 5:8 But those who won’t care for their relatives, especially those in their own household, have denied the true faith. Such people are worse than unbelievers.
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