Verse 9

One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.

Referenced Verses

• Prov 28:24 : 24 Whoever robs his father or his mother, and says, "It's not wrong." He is a partner with a destroyer.
• Prov 10:4 : 4 He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.
• Prov 23:20-21 : 20 Don't be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat: 21 for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.
• Matt 25:26 : 26 "But his lord answered him, 'You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn't sow, and gather where I didn't scatter.
• Prov 24:30-34 : 30 I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; 31 Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down. 32 Then I saw, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction: 33 a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep; 34 so your poverty will come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.
• Heb 6:12 : 12 that you won't be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises.
• Luke 15:13-14 : 13 Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living. 14 When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.
• Luke 16:1-2 : 1 He also said to his disciples, "There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions. 2 He called him, and said to him, 'What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.'
• Rom 12:11 : 11 not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
• Job 30:29 : 29 I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.