Proverbs 19:15

The Passion Translation

Go ahead—be lazy and passive. But you’ll go hungry if you live that way.

Cross References

Proverbs 18:9

The one who is too lazy to look for work is the same one who wastes his life away.

Proverbs 19:24

There are some people who pretend they’re hurt— deadbeats who won’t even work to feed themselves.

Proverbs 20:13

If you spend all your time sleeping, you’ll grow poor. So wake up, sleepyhead! Don’t sleep on the job. And then there will be plenty of food on your table.

Proverbs 22:13

A slacker always has an excuse for not working— like “I can’t go to work. There’s a lion outside! And murderers too!”

Proverbs 23:21

because drunkards and gluttons sleep their lives away and end up broke!

Proverbs 24:33

Professional work habits prevent poverty from becoming your permanent business partner. And: If you put off until tomorrow the work you could do today, tomorrow never seems to come.

Proverbs 31:27

She watches over the ways of her household and meets every need they have.

Proverbs 6:11

By making excuses you’ll learn what it means to go without. Poverty will pounce on you like a bandit and move in as your roommate for life.

Isaiah 56:10

Blind watchmen, all of them! They have no revelation-knowledge; they’re like dumb dogs that don’t even bark— dreaming, sleeping, devoted to slumber.

Ephesians 5:14

This is why the Scripture says, “Arise, you sleeper! Rise up from your coffin and the Anointed One will shine his light into you!”

2 Thessalonians 3:10

For when we were with you we instructed you with these words: “Anyone who does not want to work for a living should go hungry.”