Proverbs 12:24
The hand of the diligent will rule, but laziness ends in forced labor.

Proverbs 14:1
Every wise woman builds her house, but a foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

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 23:21
For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.

Proverbs 24:30, 31
I went past the field of a sluggard and by the vineyard of a man lacking judgment. . . .

Hebrews 6:11
We want each of you to show the same diligence to the very end, so that your hope may be fully assured.

2 Peter 1:5-10
For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith virtue; and to virtue, knowledge; . . .