Proverbs 19:15

Conservative English Version

If you are lazy and sleep your time away, you will starve.

Cross References

Proverbs 18:9

Being lazy is no different from being a troublemaker.

Proverbs 19:24

Some people are too lazy to lift a hand to feed themselves.

Proverbs 20:13

If you sleep all the time, you will starve; if you get up and work, you will have enough food.

Proverbs 22:13

Don't be so lazy that you say, "If I go to work, a lion will eat me!"

Proverbs 23:21

It will make you feel drowsy, and you will end up poor with only rags to wear.

Proverbs 24:33

Sleep a little. Doze a little. Fold your hands and twiddle your thumbs.

Proverbs 31:27

She takes good care of her family and is never lazy.

Proverbs 6:11

Suddenly, everything is gone, as though it had been taken by an armed robber.

Isaiah 56:10

You leaders of Israel should be watchdogs, protecting my people. But you can't see a thing, and you never warn them. Dozing and daydreaming are all you ever do.

Ephesians 5:14

Light shows up everything, just as the Scriptures say, "Wake up from your sleep and rise from death. Then Christ will shine on you."

2 Thessalonians 3:10

We also gave you the rule that if you don't work, you don't eat.