Proverbs 6:6

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

Go to the ant, you lazybones; consider its ways, and be wise.

Cross References

Proverbs 1:17

For in vain is the net baited while the bird is looking on;

Proverbs 10:26

Like vinegar to the teeth, and smoke to the eyes, so are the lazy to their employers.

Proverbs 10:4

A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

Proverbs 13:4

The appetite of the lazy craves, and gets nothing, while the appetite of the diligent is richly supplied.

Proverbs 15:19

The way of the lazy is overgrown with thorns, but the path of the upright is a level highway.

Proverbs 18:9

One who is slack in work is close kin to a vandal.

Proverbs 19:15

Laziness brings on deep sleep; an idle person will suffer hunger.

Proverbs 19:24

The lazy person buries a hand in the dish, and will not even bring it back to the mouth.

Proverbs 20:4

The lazy person does not plow in season; harvest comes, and there is nothing to be found.

Proverbs 21:25

The craving of the lazy person is fatal, for lazy hands refuse to labor.

Proverbs 22:13

The lazy person says, “There is a lion outside! I shall be killed in the streets!”

Proverbs 23:19

Hear, my child, and be wise, and direct your mind in the way.

Proverbs 30:24

Four things on earth are small, yet they are exceedingly wise:

Proverbs 30:25

the ants are a people without strength, yet they provide their food in the summer;

Proverbs 6:9

How long will you lie there, O lazybones? When will you rise from your sleep?

Isaiah 1:3

The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib; but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.

Jeremiah 8:7

Even the stork in the heavens knows its times; and the turtledove, swallow, and crane observe the time of their coming; but my people do not know the ordinance of the Lord.

Matthew 25:26

But his master replied, ‘You wicked and lazy slave! You knew, did you, that I reap where I did not sow, and gather where I did not scatter?

Matthew 6:26

Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?

Romans 12:11

Do not lag in zeal, be ardent in spirit, serve the Lord.

Hebrews 6:12

so that you may not become sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.