Proverbs 21:25

New American Bible - revised edition

The desire of sluggards will slay them, for their hands refuse to work.

Cross References

Proverbs 12:24

The diligent hand will govern, but sloth makes for forced labor.

Proverbs 12:27

Sloth does not catch its prey, but the wealth of the diligent is splendid.

Proverbs 13:4

The appetite of the sluggard craves but has nothing, but the appetite of the diligent is amply satisfied.

Proverbs 15:19

The way of the sluggard is like a thorn hedge, but the path of the diligent is a highway.

Proverbs 19:24

The sluggard buries a hand in the dish; not even lifting it to the mouth.

Proverbs 20:4

In seedtime sluggards do not plow; when they look for the harvest, it is not there.

Proverbs 22:13

The sluggard says, “A lion is outside; I might be slain in the street.”

Proverbs 26:13

The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the street, a lion in the middle of the square!”

Proverbs 26:16

In their own eyes sluggards are wiser than seven who answer with good judgment.

Matthew 25:26

His master said to him in reply, ‘You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I did not plant and gather where I did not scatter?

Joshua 7:3

they returned to Joshua and advised, “Do not send all the people up; if only about two or three thousand go up, they can attack and overcome Ai. You need not tire all the people: the enemy there are few.”