Proverbs 1:17
How futile to spread the net where any bird can see it.

Job 12:7, 8
But ask the animals, and they will instruct you; ask the birds of the air, and they will tell you. . . .

Isaiah 1:3
The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand."

Matthew 6:26
Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns--and yet your Heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?

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Proverbs 6:9
How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep?

Proverbs 10:26
Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.

Proverbs 13:4
The slacker craves, yet gets nothing, but the soul of the diligent is fully satisfied.

Proverbs 15:19
The way of the sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a highway.

Proverbs 18:9
Whoever is slothful in his work is brother to him who destroys.

Proverbs 19:15, 24
Laziness brings on deep sleep, and an idle soul will suffer hunger. . . .

Proverbs 20:4
The sluggard does not plow in season; at harvest time he looks, but nothing is there.

Proverbs 21:25
The craving of the sluggard will kill him because his hands refuse to work.

Proverbs 22:13
The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside! I will be slain in the streets!"

Proverbs 24:30-34
I went past the field of a sluggard and by the vineyard of a man lacking judgment. . . .

Proverbs 26:13-16
The slacker says, "A lion is in the road! A fierce lion roams the public square!" . . .

Matthew 25:26
You wicked, lazy servant!' replied his master. 'You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed.

Romans 12:11
Do not let your zeal subside; keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.

Hebrews 6:12
Then you will not be sluggish, but will imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.