Bible Quotes About Idle Hands

“Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:”

“How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?”

“He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.”

“The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute. slothful: or, deceitful”

“In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.”

“An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire. An: Heb. A man of Belial”

“He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.”

“Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.”

“The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing. cold: or, winter”

“I went by the field of the slothful , and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;”

“She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.”

“By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.”

“But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.”

“Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth . to give: or, to distribute”