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

²⁵ The craving of the lazy person is fatal, for lazy hands refuse to labor.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁵ The desire of the slothful killeth him; For his hands refuse to labour.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁵ The desire of the slothful kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁵ The desire of the sluggard killeth him; For his hands refuse to labor.

Common English Bible

²⁵ The desires of the lazy will kill them, because their hands refuse to do anything.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ Desires kill the lazy, for his hands are not willing to work at all.

Proverbs 21:25 Cross References

Proverbs 13:4

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

Proverbs 12:24

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

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?

Proverbs 26:16

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

Proverbs 19:24

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

Proverbs 15:19

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

Proverbs 12:27

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

Proverbs 20:4

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

Proverbs 26:13

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

Proverbs 22:13

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

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.”