Matthew 25:18

⁸For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to not be idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

²“This is what the LORD of Armies says: These people say, ‘The time hasn’t yet come, the time for the LORD’s house to be built.’”

³Then the LORD’s word came by Haggai the prophet, saying, ⁴“Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?

¹⁰“Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you,” says the LORD of Armies, “neither will I accept an offering at your hand.

¹³The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road! A fierce lion roams the streets!” ¹⁴As the door turns on its hinges, so does the sluggard on his bed. ¹⁵The sluggard buries his hand in the dish. He is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth. ¹⁶The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer with discretion.

²⁰Another came, saying, ‘Lord, behold, your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief,

⁹One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.

¹²that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.