Verse 6
Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;
Referenced Verses
- Prov 10:26 : 26 As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.
- Prov 13:4 : 4 The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.
- Prov 20:4 : 4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
- Heb 6:12 : 12 that you won't be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises.
- Prov 6:9 : 9 How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?
- Matt 25:26 : 26 "But his lord answered him, 'You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn't sow, and gather where I didn't scatter.
- Rom 12:11 : 11 not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
- Matt 6:26 : 26 See the birds of the sky, that they don't sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren't you of much more value than they?
- Prov 18:9 : 9 One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.
- Prov 30:25 : 25 the ants are not a strong people, yet they provide their food in the summer.
- Job 12:7-8 : 7 "But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you. 8 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you. The fish of the sea shall declare to you.
- Prov 1:17 : 17 For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird:
- Prov 15:19 : 19 The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, but the path of the upright is a highway.
- Prov 21:25 : 25 The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.
- Prov 22:13 : 13 The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!"
- Prov 24:30-34 : 30 I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; 31 Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down. 32 Then I saw, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction: 33 a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep; 34 so your poverty will come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.
- Prov 26:13-16 : 13 The sluggard says, "There is a lion in the road! A fierce lion roams the streets!" 14 As the door turns on its hinges, so does the sluggard on his bed. 15 The sluggard buries his hand in the dish. He is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth. 16 The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer with discretion.
- Isa 1:3 : 3 The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib; but Israel doesn't know, my people don't consider."
- Prov 19:15 : 15 Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.
- Prov 19:24 : 24 The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.