Proverbs 21:25

New International Reader's Version

Some people will die while they are still hungry. That’s because their hands refuse to work.

Cross References

Proverbs 12:24

Hands that work hard will rule. But people who are lazy will be forced to work.

Proverbs 12:27

Lazy people do not even cook what they catch. But those who work hard eat their fill of what is hunted.

Proverbs 13:4

People who refuse to work want things and get nothing. But the desires of people who work hard are completely satisfied.

Proverbs 15:19

The way of people who don’t want to work is blocked with thorns. But the path of honest people is a wide road.

Proverbs 19:24

A person who doesn’t want to work leaves his hand in the dish. He won’t even bring it back up to his mouth!

Proverbs 20:4

Anyone who refuses to work doesn’t plow in the right season. When they look for a crop at harvest time, they don’t find it.

Proverbs 22:13

People who don’t want to work say, “There’s a lion outside!” Or they say, “I’ll be murdered if I go out into the streets!”

Proverbs 26:13

A person who doesn’t want to work says, “There’s a lion in the road! There’s an angry lion wandering in the streets!”

Proverbs 26:16

A person who doesn’t want to work is wiser in his own eyes than seven people who give careful answers.

Matthew 25:26

“His master replied, ‘You evil, lazy slave! So you knew that I harvest where I have not planted? You knew that I gather crops where I have not scattered seed?

Joshua 7:3

Then they returned to Joshua. They said, “The whole army doesn’t have to go up and attack Ai. Send only two or three thousand men. They can take the city. Don’t make the whole army go up there. Only a few people live in Ai.”