For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe {a man} with rags.

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, {and} thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.

How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

And that, knowing the time, that now {it is} high time to awake out of sleep: for now {is} our salvation nearer than when we believed.

{Yet} a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

He becometh poor that dealeth {with} a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. {he: or, it}

A slothful {man} hideth his hand in {his} bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

His watchmen {are} blind: they are all ignorant, they {are} all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. {sleeping: or, dreaming, or, talking in their sleep}

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; {therefore} shall he beg in harvest, and {have} nothing. {cold: or, winter}

He becometh poor that dealeth {with} a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, {and} thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:

Therefore let us not sleep, as {do} others; but let us watch and be sober.

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe {a man} with rags.

The slothful {man} saith, {There is} a lion in the way; a lion {is} in the streets.

The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute. {slothful: or, deceitful}

And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;

A slothful {man} hideth his hand in {his} bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto thy servants: for I swear by the LORD, if thou go not forth, there will not tarry one with thee this night: and that will be worse unto thee than all the evil that befell thee from thy youth until now. {comfortably...: Heb. to the heart of thy servants}

And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,

And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?

Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed.

And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman {was} very beautiful to look upon.

For if these things be in you, and abound, they make {you that ye shall} neither {be} barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. {barren: Gr. idle}