Proverbs 6:6
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Proverbs 20:4
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Proverbs 18:9
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9 Whoever is slack in his work
is a (A)brother to him who destroys.
Proverbs 6:9
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Proverbs 13:4
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4 (A)The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent (B)is richly supplied.
Hebrews 6:12
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12 so that you may not be sluggish, but (A)imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
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Proverbs 30:25
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25 (A)the ants are a people not strong,
yet they provide their food in the summer;
Matthew 25:26
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26 But his master answered him, ‘You (A)wicked and (B)slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed?
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Romans 12:11
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11 Do not be slothful in zeal, (A)be fervent in spirit,[a] (B)serve the Lord.
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- Romans 12:11 Or fervent in the Spirit
Proverbs 26:13-16
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13 (A)The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road!
There is a lion in the streets!”
14 As a door turns on its hinges,
so does a sluggard on his bed.
15 (B)The sluggard buries his hand in the dish;
it wears him out to bring it back to his mouth.
16 The sluggard is (C)wiser in his own eyes
(D)than seven men who can answer sensibly.
Proverbs 21:25
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25 The desire of (A)the sluggard kills him,
for his hands refuse to labor.
Proverbs 19:15
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Proverbs 24:30-34
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30 (A)I passed by the field of a sluggard,
by the vineyard of a man (B)lacking sense,
31 and behold, it was all overgrown with thorns;
the ground was covered with nettles,
and its stone (C)wall was broken down.
32 Then I saw and (D)considered it;
I looked and received instruction.
33 (E)A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to rest,
34 and poverty will come upon you like a robber,
and want like an armed man.
Proverbs 22:13
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13 (A)The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside!
I shall be killed in the streets!”
Job 12:7-8
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7 “But ask the beasts, and they will teach you;
the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you;
8 or the bushes of the earth, and they will teach you;[a]
and the fish of the sea will declare to you.
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- Job 12:8 Or or speak to the earth, and it will teach you
Proverbs 10:26
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26 Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes,
so is the sluggard to those who send him.
Proverbs 19:24
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Matthew 6:26
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26 (A)Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. (B)Are you not of more value than they?
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Proverbs 15:19
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19 The way of (A)a sluggard is like a hedge of (B)thorns,
but the path of the upright is (C)a level highway.
Proverbs 1:17
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17 (A)For in vain is a net spread
in the sight of any bird,
Isaiah 1:3
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3 The ox (A)knows its owner,
and the donkey its master's crib,
but Israel does (B)not know,
my people do not understand.”
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