12 Passages To Read To Help Fight Laziness

12 Passages to Read to Help Fight Laziness
August 07, 2022 by: Crossway
This article is part of the Passages to Read series.
1. Colossians 3:23–24
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord
you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.
2. Romans 12:11
Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord.
3. Proverbs 14:23
In all toil there is profit,
but mere talk tends only to poverty.
4. Philippians 2:14–16
Do all things without grumbling or disputing, that you may be blameless and innocent,
children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among
whom you shine as lights in the world, holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of
Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.
5. Ephesians 4:28
Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands,
so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.
6. Proverbs 6:6–8
Go to the ant, O sluggard;
consider her ways, and be wise.
Without having any chief,
officer, or ruler,
she prepares her bread in summer
and gathers her food in harvest.
7. Proverbs 20:4
The sluggard does not plow in the autumn;
he will seek at harvest and have nothing.
8. Galatians 6:2–10
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. For if anyone thinks he is
something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. But let each one test his own work, and
then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor. For each will have to
bear his own load.
Let the one who is taught the word share all good things with the one who teaches. Do not be
deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who
sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit
will from the Spirit reap eternal life. And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due
season we will reap, if we do not give up. So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to
everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.
9. 1 Corinthians 10:31
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
10. Proverbs 26:13–16

The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road!
There is a lion in the streets!”
As a door turns on its hinges,
so does a sluggard on his bed.
The sluggard buries his hand in the dish;
it wears him out to bring it back to his mouth.
The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes
than seven men who can answer sensibly.
11. Hebrews 4:15–16

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one
who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us then with confidence
draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of
need.
12. Matthew 25:14–30

“For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his
property. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his
ability. Then he went away. He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with
them, and he made five talents more. So also he who had the two talents made two talents
more. But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master’s
money. Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with
them. And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more,
saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here, I have made five talents more.’ His
master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I
will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ And he also who had the two talents
came forward, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me two talents; here, I have made two talents
more.’ His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful
over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ He also who had
received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping
where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed, so I was afraid, and I went
and hid your talent in the ground. Here, you have what is yours.’ But his master answered him,
‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather
where I scattered no seed? Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and
at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest. So take the talent from
him and give it to him who has the ten talents. For to everyone who has will more be given,
and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken
away. And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place there will be
weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

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12 Passages to Read to Help Fight Laziness

August 07, 2022 by: Crossway

This article is part of the Passages to Read series.

10. Proverbs 26:13–16

11. Hebrews 4:15–16

12. Matthew 25:14–30

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