Proverbs 21:25 - Revised Standard Version

The desire of the sluggard kills him for his hands refuse to labor.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

The desire of the slothful killeth him; For his hands refuse to labour.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

The desire of the slothful kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.

American Standard Version (1901)

The desire of the sluggard killeth him; For his hands refuse to labor.

Common English Bible

The desires of the lazy will kill them, because their hands refuse to do anything.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Desires kill the lazy, for his hands are not willing to work at all.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Desires kill the slothful: for his hands have refused to work at all.

Proverbs 21:25 Cross References

Proverbs 12:24

The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor.

Proverbs 12:27

A slothful man will not catch his prey, but the diligent man will get precious wealth.

Proverbs 13:4

The soul of the sluggard craves, and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.

Proverbs 15:19

The way of a sluggard is overgrown with thorns, but the path of the upright is a level highway.

Proverbs 19:24

The sluggard buries his hand in the dish, and will not even bring it back to his mouth.

Proverbs 20:4

The sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing.

Proverbs 22:13

The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside! I shall be slain in the streets!”

Proverbs 26:13

The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road! There is a lion in the streets!”

Proverbs 26:16

The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who can answer discreetly.

Matthew 25:26

But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sowed, and gather where I have not winnowed?

Joshua 7:3

And they returned to Joshua, and said to him, “Let not all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and attack Ai; do not make the whole people toil up there, for they are but few.”