Proverbs 6:6

New International Version

Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise!

Cross References

Proverbs 1:17

How useless to spread a net where every bird can see it!

Proverbs 10:26

As vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so are sluggards to those who send them.

Proverbs 10:4

Lazy hands make for poverty, but diligent hands bring wealth.

Proverbs 13:4

A sluggard’s appetite is never filled, but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.

Proverbs 15:19

The way of the sluggard is blocked with thorns, but the path of the upright is a highway.

Proverbs 18:9

One who is slack in his work is brother to one who destroys.

Proverbs 19:15

Laziness brings on deep sleep, and the shiftless go hungry.

Proverbs 19:24

A sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he will not even bring it back to his mouth!

Proverbs 20:4

Sluggards do not plow in season; so at harvest time they look but find nothing.

Proverbs 21:25

The craving of a sluggard will be the death of him, because his hands refuse to work.

Proverbs 22:13

The sluggard says, “There’s a lion outside! I’ll be killed in the public square!”

Proverbs 23:19

Listen, my son, and be wise, and set your heart on the right path:

Proverbs 30:24

“Four things on earth are small, yet they are extremely wise:

Proverbs 30:25

Ants are creatures of little strength, yet they store up their food in the summer;

Proverbs 6:9

How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep?

Isaiah 1:3

The ox knows its master, the donkey its owner’s manger, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.”

Jeremiah 8:7

Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons, and the dove, the swift and the thrush observe the time of their migration. But my people do not know the requirements of the Lord.

Matthew 25:26

“His master replied, ‘You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed?

Matthew 6:26

Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?

Romans 12:11

Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.

Hebrews 6:12

We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.