Cross reference
Ecclesiastes 10:18
18 By slothfulness is the wall brought low, And by idleness of the hands doth the house drop.
Proverbs 14:1
1 Every wise woman hath builded her house, And the foolish with her hands breaketh it down.
Proverbs 20:4
4 Because of winter the slothful plougheth not, He asketh in harvest, and there is nothing.
Proverbs 12:24
24 The hand of the diligent ruleth, And slothfulness becometh tributary.
Proverbs 21:25
25 The desire of the slothful slayeth him, For his hands have refused to work.
Proverbs 23:21
21 For the quaffer and glutton become poor, And drowsiness clotheth with rags.
Proverbs 24:30-34
30 Near the field of a slothful man I passed by, And near the vineyard of a man lacking heart.
31 And lo, it hath gone up -- all of it -- thorns! Covered its face have nettles, And its stone wall hath been broken down.
32 And I see -- I -- I do set my heart, I have seen -- I have received instruction,
33 A little sleep -- a little slumber -- A little folding of the hands to lie down.
34 And thy poverty hath come `as' a traveller, And thy want as an armed man!
Hebrews 6:11
11 and we desire each one of you the same diligence to shew, unto the full assurance of the hope unto the end,
2 Peter 1:5-10
5 And this same also -- all diligence having brought in besides, superadd in your faith the worthiness, and in the worthiness the knowledge,
6 and in the knowledge the temperance, and in the temperance the endurance, and in the endurance the piety,
7 and in the piety the brotherly kindness, and in the brotherly kindness the love;
8 for these things being to you and abounding, do make `you' neither inert nor unfruitful in regard to the acknowledging of our Lord Jesus Christ,
9 for he with whom these things are not present is blind, dim-sighted, having become forgetful of the cleansing of his old sins;
10 wherefore, the rather, brethren, be diligent to make stedfast your calling and choice, for these things doing, ye may never stumble,