Proverbs 21:25

New Century Version

Lazy people’s desire for sleep will kill them, because they refuse to work.

Cross References

Proverbs 12:24

Hard workers will become leaders, but those who are lazy will be slaves.

Proverbs 12:27

The lazy catch no food to cook, but a hard worker will have great wealth.

Proverbs 13:4

The lazy will not get what they want, but those who work hard will.

Proverbs 15:19

A lazy person’s life is like a patch of thorns, but an honest person’s life is like a smooth highway.

Proverbs 19:24

Though the lazy person puts his hand in the dish, he won’t lift the food to his mouth.

Proverbs 20:4

Lazy farmers don’t plow when they should; they expect a harvest, but there is none.

Proverbs 22:13

The lazy person says, “There’s a lion outside! I might get killed out in the street!”

Proverbs 26:13

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

Proverbs 26:16

The lazy person thinks he is wiser than seven people who give sensible answers.

Matthew 25:26

The master answered, ‘You are a wicked and lazy servant! You say you knew that I harvest things I did not plant and that I gather crops where I did not sow any seed.

Joshua 7:3

Later they came back to Joshua and said, “There are only a few people in Ai, so we will not need all our people to defeat them. Send only two or three thousand men to fight. There is no need to send all of our people.”