Proverbs 6:6

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.