Here’s verses from Proverbs from the sermon topic for June 22.
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.
How long will you lie there, O sluggard?
When will you arise from your sleep?
A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to rest,
and poverty will come upon you like a robber,
and want like an armed man.
(Proverbs 6:6-11 ESV)
A slack hand causes poverty,
but the hand of the diligent makes rich.
He who gathers in summer is a prudent son,
but he who sleeps in harvest is a son who brings shame.
(Proverbs 10:4-5 ESV)
Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes,
so is the sluggard to those who send him.
(Proverbs 10:26 ESV)
The hand of the diligent will rule,
while the slothful will be put to forced labor.
(Proverbs 12:24 ESV)
Whoever is slothful will not roast his game,
but the diligent man will get precious wealth.
(Proverbs 12:27 ESV)
The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.
(Proverbs 13:4 ESV)
In all toil there is profit,
but mere talk tends only to poverty.
(Proverbs 14:23 ESV)
The way of a sluggard is like a hedge of thorns,
but the path of the upright is a level highway.
(Proverbs 15:19 ESV)
Whoever is slack in his work
is a brother to him who destroys.
(Proverbs 18:9 ESV)
Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep,
and an idle person will suffer hunger.
(Proverbs 19:15 ESV)
The sluggard buries his hand in the dish
and will not even bring it back to his mouth.
(Proverbs 19:24 ESV)
The sluggard does not plow in the autumn;
he will seek at harvest and have nothing.
(Proverbs 20:4 ESV)
Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty;
open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.
(Proverbs 20:13 ESV)
The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance,
but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue
is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death.
(Proverbs 21:5-6 ESV)
The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside!
I shall be killed in the streets!”
(Proverbs 22:13 ESV)
I passed by the field of a sluggard,
by the vineyard of a man lacking sense,
and behold, it was all overgrown with thorns;
the ground was covered with nettles,
and its stone wall was broken down.
Then I saw and considered it;
I looked and received instruction.
A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to rest,
and poverty will come upon you like a robber,
and want like an armed man.
(Proverbs 24:30-34 ESV)
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.
(Proverbs 26:13-16 ESV)
