Proverbs 21:25 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The craving of the lazy person is fatal, for lazy 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 lazy will be put to forced labor.

Proverbs 12:27

The lazy do not roast their game, but the diligent obtain precious wealth.

Proverbs 13:4

The appetite of the lazy craves and gets nothing, while the appetite of the diligent is richly supplied.

Proverbs 15:19

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

Proverbs 19:24

The lazy person buries a hand in the dish and will not even bring it back to the mouth.

Proverbs 20:4

The lazy person does not plow in season; harvest comes, and there is nothing to be found.

Proverbs 22:13

The lazy person says, “There is a lion outside! I shall be killed in the streets!”

Proverbs 26:13

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

Proverbs 26:16

The lazy person is wiser in self-esteem than seven who can answer discreetly.

Matthew 25:26

But his master replied, ‘You wicked and lazy slave! You knew, did you, that I reap where I did not sow and gather where I did not scatter?

Joshua 7:3

Then they returned to Joshua and said to him, “Not all the people need go up; about two or three thousand men should go up and attack Ai. Since they are so few, do not make the whole people toil up there.”