8 Bible Verses about Laziness

Then do not become slack, but be imitators of those who through faith and patience are inheriting the promises.

In your diligence be free from sloth. Be glowing in spirit. Slave for the master.

For indeed when I was with you, I used to charge you, "If any man will not work, he shall not eat."

Buy up opportunity, for the times are evil.

You recall, brothers, my labor and toil; how, while working at my trade day and night, so as not to become a burden to any of you, I proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

For indeed when I was with you, I used to charge you, "If any man will not work, he shall not eat." But I hear that there are those of your number who are leading idle and disorderly lives, who are not busy, but mere busybodies. Now all such I command and entreat, by the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ, to work in quietness. and to earn their own living.

"'You wicked and lazy slave,' said his master. 'You say you knew that I reap where I have not sowed, and gather where I have not scattered?' Then you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my property with interest. So take away the talent from him, and give it to the man who has ten talents.read more.
(For to every one who has, it shall be given, and he shall have abundance; but from him who has not shall be taken away even what he has.) But cast out the worthless slave into the outer darkness; there will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.'