Proverbs 21:25

God's Word

The desire of a lazy person will kill him because his hands refuse to work.

Cross References

Proverbs 12:24

Hard-working hands gain control, but lazy hands do slave labor.

Proverbs 12:27

A lazy hunter does not catch his prey, but a hard-working person becomes wealthy.

Proverbs 13:4

A lazy person craves food and there is none, but the appetite of hard-working people is satisfied.

Proverbs 15:19

The path of lazy people is like a thorny hedge, but the road of decent people is an ⌞open⌟ highway.

Proverbs 19:24

A lazy person puts his fork in his food. He doesn’t even bring it back to his mouth.

Proverbs 20:4

A lazy person does not plow in the fall. He looks for something in the harvest but finds nothing.

Proverbs 22:13

A lazy person says, “There’s a lion outside! I’ll be murdered in the streets!”

Proverbs 26:13

A lazy person says, “There’s a ferocious lion out on the road! There’s a lion loose in the streets!”

Proverbs 26:16

A lazy person thinks he is wiser than seven people who give a sensible answer.

Matthew 25:26

“His master responded, ‘You evil and lazy servant! If you knew that I harvest where I haven’t planted and gather where I haven’t scattered,

Joshua 7:3

They came back to Joshua and told him, “You don’t need to send all the troops. Only about two or three thousand men are needed to destroy Ai. Don’t tire the troops out by sending all of them. There are only a few troops in Ai.”